Pygmalion and My Fair Lady
Edition: 50th Anniversary ed.; 1st Signet Classics printing (32)
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: 1980-08
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780451530097
Copyright date: 1969
First sentence: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Ireland and moved to England while he was still in his teens.
Description: The ancient Greeks tell the legend of the sculptor Pygmalion, who created a statue of a woman of such surpassing beauty that he fell in love with his own creation. Then, Aphrodite, taking pity on this man whose love could not reach beyond the barrier of stone, brought the statue to life and gave her to Pygmalion as his bride. 

Centuries later, George Bernard Shaw captured the magic of this legend in his celebrated play, Pygmalion. Pygmalion became Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, his statue an untutored flower girl from the streets of London, and the barrier between them is class.. Shaw expected Eliza to end up with Freddy and run a flower shop.

In My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner takes the legend one step further—the barrier is swept away and Higgins and Eliza are reunited as the curtain falls on one of the loveliest musical plays of our time—winning seven Tonys® for its original Broadway production, and seven Oscars® for its film adaptation.
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Notes: US/CAN