{"product_id":"pygmalion-a-romance-in-five-acts-penguin-classics","title":"Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts (Penguin Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePygmalion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an Introduction by NICHOLAS GRENE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Bernard Shaw (Author), Nicholas Grene","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52014723170625,"sku":null,"price":1000.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3087\/9041\/files\/32_7b1576c9-3d67-43c8-b7fe-249de7f7a30d.webp?v=1784903042","url":"https:\/\/www.bookemporium.pk\/products\/pygmalion-a-romance-in-five-acts-penguin-classics","provider":"The Book Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}