Pygmalion

Name: Pygmalion
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.3 (30 reviews)
Author: George Bernard Shaw
ISBN: 9789629546984

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Narrator: Anton Lesser, Lucy Whybrow, Geoffrey Palmer, and full cast

Unabridged: 2 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 02/01/2002

Categories: Fiction, Drama

Synopsis

Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories – but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady. But much of the charm and wit comes from the words and timing in Shaw’s original play. Here are the characters of Professor Higgins, his friend Colonel Pickering, and their charge, Eliza Doolittle. Directed by John Tydeman, this delightful comedy is presented in its original play version, with the extended narrations setting the background and concluding the drama – a device perfectly suited to Audiobook.

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