{"product_id":"pygmalion","title":"Pygmalion","description":"'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePygmalion\u003c\/i\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","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57633501577542,"sku":"9780141439501","price":12.39,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/3cdf5ce22f0e4af6a8cc9fce9847701f9d4618570cdf5b187ee230f130a4a743.jpg?v=1792265396","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/products\/pygmalion","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}