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Published by London: Constable. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Very Good, Mustard Cloth with rubbing, stains, sun-fading, edge wear; minor staining on end papers; some shelf wear.

Published by Brentano's, New York, Used Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. First thus. The first American edition of Androcles and an early edition of Pygmalion.

Original blue cloth with white paper spine label lettered in green and red. A Near Fine copy with a gift inscription on front free endpaper, a very few easily-erasable pencil marks in text. In rare original jacket, foxed and rubbed, chipped at head and tail, worn along edges with splits along folds repaired with archival mending tissue to verso, crease to reattached chip at foot, thin closed tear to top of back panel, Good overall.

Three plays. Pygmalion inspired the musical and film My Fair Lady. Published by Everybody's Magazine. New York, Leather spine and corners. Marbled paper over boards. Patterned endpapers. Raised cords on the spine, with titles in gold. Some wear to hinges and scuffs to corners, but overall the binding is attractive. A title page says, "Three Plays by Bernard Shaw. New York. The first play is Androcles and the Lion. It is pages of Everybody's Magazine. Sept Vol XXXI, no.

The next play is Pygmalion. It is Everybody's Magazine November Pages The final play is Great Catherine. It is pages of Everybody's Magazine, but the volume and issue number are not present it's January All three plays are illustrated. All three have half-title pages inserted in this copy, on the same paper and in the same font as the title page. The publishing house Putnam's seems to have issued Pygmalion be rebinding the Everybody Magazine sheets until they were told to stop it.

Whether this is a Putnam imprint or a 'collection' put together by a contemporary enthusiast of Shaw's work, I cannot say. Please email with questions or to request photos.

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Tell us what you're looking for and once a match is found, we'll inform you by e-mail. Can't remember the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. To me Eliza Doolittle, Henry Higgins, and Colonel Pickering are as much the actors who played them as they are are the memories I created with my grandmother and great aunt while watching the movie or listening to its timeless songs.

By the time I finally read Pygmalion in script form in eighth grade English class and then subsequently watched the movie in class, I had the entire script memorized.

My entire class asked me for assistance in all the assignments associated with this unit, and of course, I demurred. Ask me today, I still have most of the songs memorized, which of course came from Shaw's brilliant script. My daughters' favorite classic film is My Fair Lady because of the gorgeous costumes they see at Ascot race track and the Royal ball. But what makes this Cinderella story timeless is not the costumes but the prose down to the last line, "Eliza, where the devil are my slippers.

You too could be captivated by Eliza the flower girl turned language pupil and create generations of memories. View all 41 comments. Mar 30, Dave Hill rated it it was amazing. 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. View all 6 comments. Mar 14, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: literature , 21th-century , drama , movie , british , 20th-century.

It was first presented on stage to the public in In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure.

Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in Shaw would also have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical My Fair Lady and its film version.

Aug 02, Fergus rated it really liked it. This was a buddy read with my marvellous new friend Elinor, and we both had a whale of a time reading it! He imagin This was a buddy read with my marvellous new friend Elinor, and we both had a whale of a time reading it! Then he just smiles and makes some reenergizing lemonade for the lost lovebirds.

So WE laugh too. We all love to read and we all have a very stressful and very largely unpleasant REAL life chock fulla lemons. Most authors give us the former so we can escape the latter. Not Shaw! But a realist with a Warm Heart.

Before I read this play I thought Shaw was superficial. Not any more! For when I read the lengthy conclusion of this play, I was wearing a wistful, very human smile. For he had touched the core of my Heart. View all 12 comments. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul.

I adored the music and my favorite scene was the Ascot Races. My fifteen-year old self was thrilled to don the gorgeous dress and feather hat of a lady attending the races. Decades later I finally got around to reading the play on which the musical was based.

Professor Henry Higgins is a renowned phoneticist who takes on a bet and an experiment of sorts with Colonel Pickering to turn a common, street-corner flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a well-bred lady, simply by changing her language and her dress. Shaw makes some brilliant statements about social class and gender distinctions through his characters. What I had forgotten, or perhaps it was not as glaringly obvious to me years ago, is that Professor Higgins is a bit of an ass!

The ability to make change is inherent in each one of us, however, and can provide the freedom necessary to find a better station in life.

My first attempt to actually read George Bernard Shaw was rather a success, although I still prefer actually seeing a play to reading one. Perhaps I just had a bit of nostalgia for this and wanted more of a visual experience.

View all 27 comments. Jun 25, Lisa rated it it was amazing Shelves: nobels. A lot of my reading at the moment seems to revolve around the relationship between art and artist, creator and creation. Reading other reviews on "Pygmalion", I realise how strange my approach to it was, and how disappointed I was at first because my expectations were not met.

I chose it as part of a reading challenge I set myself a couple of years ago - to read all Nobel Laureates in literature. The title appealed to me, and I was thrilled to explore a modernist's take on the ancient myth of Pyg A lot of my reading at the moment seems to revolve around the relationship between art and artist, creator and creation.

The title appealed to me, and I was thrilled to explore a modernist's take on the ancient myth of Pygmalion. Believe it or not, I had never realised that "My Fair Lady", which I love, is based on this play, and I waited for GREEK characters to show up, as I had been immersing myself in Enlightenment art concerned with the artistic questions raised in the Pygmalion story. Falconet's sculpture of the misogynistic sculptor falling in love with his own creation, kneeling in front of the carefully chiselled woman, praying to Aphrodite to make her come alive, - that was what I was waiting for!

I kept wondering about the charming cockney and 19th century scientific approach to social class distinctions. I enjoyed the reading experience, but could not make sense of it at all.

Don't judge a book by its title, I was inclined to say, until it dawned on me all of a sudden that: a Shaw's "Pygmalion" was linked to the musical "My Fair Lady", and b Higgins had more than a trace of Pygmalion, in fact was his modern alter ego.

Just like the ancient artist, he did not quite expect the outcome of his experiment, and Eliza Doolittle, like so many other literary creatures, does a beautiful job of emancipating herself from her creator.

Art is quite amazing that way: as soon as it enters the world, it has a life of its own, and the artist is forced to watch its development together with other spectators. I like that idea, as it symbolises the relationship between older and younger generations as well: we are nurtured and shaped by our parents' choices, but when we grow up, the freedom and responsibility is ours.

In a way, Frankenstein and Moreau's monsters in The Island of Doctor Moreau demonstrate the same emancipation process, and I don't think it is a coincidence that artists and writers of the 19th century were obsessed with that theme, as the world went through major political, social, economic and scientific changes.

Shaw showed wonderful creativity when transforming the ancient myth into modern life while keeping the essential questions alive. And his creation lives its own, independent life as well! Along with O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra", this is my favourite merging of myth and modern drama!

View all 9 comments. Dec 24, mwana rated it liked it Shelves: classic , play. Pygmalion: def. A sculptor in Greek mythology who created a sculpture so beautiful that he fell in love with her.

In this rendition of an age old story, professor of linguistics Henry Higgins plucks a flower girl off the streets so as to teach her proper diction and middle class manners. After befriending Colonel Pickerson, they wager that by the end of the lessons, the flower girl Eliza Doolittle, will be just as well-mannered as a duchess.

A Pygmalion: def. And a confirmed bachelor. I aint done nothing. Crowd: Yeah dude mind your damn business. Oh wait, you are harmless. Eliza: Bitch, buy some flowers. They buy some flowers. Higgins: Lmao no. Pickerson: Could be interesting. Higgins: Meh Eliza: ah-he-hi-ho-uh if you will not have me I will not bother. Come get a bath and some new clothes. Mrs Higgins: Seriously? Higgins: But I am an eccentric scholar!

You must abide by my demands. Mrs Higgins: So dramatic. Months later Higgins: See, we succeeded. You owe me Pickering. I trained her and after the events last night keeping up with the posh folks, Eliza could speak circles around em. Takes up new language like a kid raised in a foreign country. I'm off to bed. Higgins: Yeah now she can go and do whatever she wants. Eliza [mentally]: Is that all I am to you. Eliza [out loud]: pouts Higgins: Now where are my slippers.

Eliza: goes to get them and tosses them at him Higgins: what the fuck is your problem? Eliza [mentally]: why do you not care about me? Eliza [out loud]: Bah! Higgins: K Eliza: Peace. The next morning Higgins: Mother Eliza has disappeared. Mrs Higgins: Dude, calm down. Eliza: Give me kindness or give me independence. Higgins: You can come back to our digs and life goes on as it was or try your luck back in the gutter I picked you from.

Higgins: I hear you. When you come back life will go on as usual. Eliza: Go fuck yourself. Imma marry that Freddy dude who is friends with your mum. When he is able to provide for me. Higgins: Bitch please. Shaw: I have written hundreds of words explaining my ambiguous ending. Higgins is basically oedipal and holds his mama with the highest regard so no woman could ever compare.

But you reader nudge nudge wink wink can see for yourself that he HAS fallen in love with Eliza but she declared that even if Higgins were to ask for her hand in marriage she would say no. Scholar reviews: This carefully crafted minimalist short play which is likely Shaw's best work is an allegory of the caste system of which Shaw is showing disdain for via Higgins.

He is also painting Higgins as a low key socialist. Furthermore, Eliza's courage in standing up to Higgins shows her growth as a student who ends up becoming better than her master. When she threatens to be his business competitor she challenges his socialist ideals by embracing the backbone of capitalism. No, not greed.

But Eliza's independence is curtailed by Higgins trading her compliance for his dismissive friendship which is borderline abusive. This work is really seminal in observing the socio-economic View all 4 comments. Mar 22, Praveen rated it it was amazing. Pygmalion was an ancient Greek legend, who was a sculptor and a king. He fell in love with his ivory statue of his own ideal woman.

He prayed. In response to his prayer, the Goddess gave life to the statue and then the king married it. This much of information was sufficient for me to know why the title of this book was chosen by G. Shaw, Pygmalion. I very much liked the character of Mr. Higgins in the play. He is a professor and scientist of phonetics and very confident about his knowled Pygmalion was an ancient Greek legend, who was a sculptor and a king.

He is a professor and scientist of phonetics and very confident about his knowledge and acumen. While reading the book I realized that everyone is like Pygmalion. Everyone likes and adores whatever is created by him or her. Three years old daughter of my neighbor first makes a bridge from the cards and then claps and laughs seeing it, and during this spree when someone breaks it or it is shattered by the wind, she weeps.

She perhaps loves her creation. Though momentary, she expresses the feelings of love and pain with a unique sort of fervor to those childish maneuvers and efforts. I too was probably like Pygmalion when I was a kid, but unlike this small daughter of my neighbor, I did not feel pain when one day my creation was destroyed! My creation was a cat made up of snow. When one day there occurred, an event of very heavy snowfall, all houses and trees were covered with the white sheet of snow and remained covered for a few days.

I made a sculpture of a cat out of that snow, just outside the window of my room. It was not a replica of a cat, In fact it looked like a small cow, a bit bulky in size and a bit distorted but still it was a cat for me and I had placed a few whiskers of string on its front bulging shape, which according to me was the mouth of my cat, and I inserted two small round glass shooters, a few inches above those whiskers to make them look like eyes of my cat.

My this awkward-looking cat remained there just outside the window of my room for two days possibly. There was not at all sunshine for two days. The temperature was below zero and the snow did not melt. I kept watching my cat again and again and adored its ludicrous shape during those two days. Then the third day Sun shone with all its brilliance and in the very morning time itself, my cat melted away and disappeared.