Pygmalion

Name: Pygmalion
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: George Bernard Shaw
ISBN: 9781664950559

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Narrator: Megan Green

Unabridged: 3 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zefferus

Published: 01/04/2021

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Drama

Synopsis

Relive this hilarious drama retold in audiobook format, complete with the witty narrative and directions of Shaw's original playscript.Henry Higgins, a phonetician, agrees to coach and groom Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl and transform her into a socially acceptable person, no less than a duchess - in just six months!Timeless themes of equality and social class are explored in a lighthearted, comical manner, raising many questions such as:Can Eliza "I'm a good girl I am!" live up to their expectations?What will become of her afterwards?What happens when her Father, an "undeserving" dustman comes into money and becomes a "victim of the middle class"?What is middle class morality?Listeners are invited to answer these questions for themselves - or just sit back and be entertained by Shaw's comic wit in all it's glory.

About George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856â€“1950), Irish-born playwright, critic, and political activist, began his writing career in London. In addition to writing sixty-three plays, his prodigious output as critic, pamphleteer, and essayist influenced numerous social issues. In 1925, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature and in 1938 an Oscar for the movie version of Pygmalion.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on June 21, 2023

Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo! Exceptional linguist Professor Henry Higgins meets gentleman Colonel Pickering and they whimsically set on crazy bet to pass off Eliza, a low class street flower girl, as a respectable royal lady of the high society. Little do they know Eliza has a few talents of her own. This wa......more

Goodreads review by Dave on March 31, 2012

This is fun to read out loud in crazy English accents while stomping around your apartment. The neighbors might not like it but screw 'em.......more

Goodreads review by Meghhnaa on September 28, 2022

Pygmalion is a verbose, satirical, romantic play, distributed over 5 Acts, with no scenes! The play opens with the following preparatory lines- “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. German and Spanish are accessible to foreigne......more

Goodreads review by Candi on May 03, 2019

3.5 stars "… you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul." Even if you are not already familiar with Geor......more