num_pages: 224
description: Pygmalion : flower girl is transformed into princess : play / by Bernard Shaw --Story of Pygmalion from The metamorphoses : a sculptor falls in love with the statue he creates : poem / by Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries --Excerpt from My fair lady : a musical version of Pygmalion : play / by Alan Jay Lerner --Her first ball : she could have danced all night : short story / by Katherine Mansfield --The London language from The story of English : what is cockney? : essay / by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert Mac Neil --Mother tongue : a fiction writer and the language that nurtured her : essay / by Amy Tan --Two words : a story about language and power : short story / by Isabel Allende ; translated by Alberto Manguel --The model : what lies behind the artist's gaze? : short story / by Bernard Malamud --Words : in defense of bad grammar : poem / by Vern Rutsala.
language: English
title: Pygmalion: and Related Readings
titlecomplete: Pygmalion: and Related Readings
characters: Mrs. Higgins, Alfred P. Doolittle, Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Eliza Doolittle, Mrs. Eynsford-Hill, Henry Higgins, Clara Eynsford-Hill, Mrs. Pearce, Colonel Pickering
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, British Literature, Drama, School, Humor, Literature, Romance, Classics
ratings_count: 101140
places: England, United Kingdom, London, England
publisher: McDougal Littell