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Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)
 

Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)

by George Bernard Shaw

A rousing success on the London and New York stages, a popular film and a great musical hit (My Fair Lady), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language.

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Tinky
  • Rated 5 stars

“Shaw's best-known (thanks to Lerner and Loewe) and best -loved play, a wonderful fable about "class". Very funny. Required reading!”

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vipingoyal
  • Rated 2 stars

“I have read my fair lady after watching movie.Both are very good,in my opinion.”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.913295 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.285714 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Ysa

    ysa said:

    “I am yet to read the script; I only watched the movie version of the play. Clever lines. Loved it.”

    posted Friday, January 18 2008
  • dahby

    dahby said:

    “I came across a copy of the script over the internet while I was researching about the Pygmalion effect also otherwise known as the self-fulfilling prophecy. The former so named after Pygmalion, the sculptor, who had Galatea - his own creation - as his wife. I enjoyed reading this one. =)”

    posted Friday, December 14 2007
  • Aftab S

    aftab s said:

    “Do your members know GBS gave the rights of this play to the London Library and that institution has never had such an expensive donation from anybody else? This has been a play that has seldom been off the stage for any length of time.”

    posted Thursday, November 29 2007
  • snooks

    snooks said:

    “you know, the play simply didn't come alive till the movie, for me....



    ”

    posted Tuesday, August 28 2007
  • riturawat

    riturawat said:

    “it is said that Shaw put a little bit of himself in Henry Higgans! probably thats what made him so charming n loveable in spite of everything - it is also said that shaw was highly displeased with the end of the film - though i am sure the audience wasn't!!!!!”

    posted Thursday, August 16 2007
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