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Pygmalion

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: George Bernard Shaw collectionPublication details: New Delhi Peacock Books 2023Description: 97pISBN:
  • 9788124802960
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.912  SHA
Summary: George Bernard Shaw, a 20th-century dramatist, literary critic, and showman, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. One night, two gentlemen, Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering, meet in Covent Garden. Higgins bets on his phonetics knowledge to transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney-speaking flower girl, into a well-spoken duchess. Eliza appears at Higgins' laboratory and offers to pay a shilling for speech lessons. Pickering agrees to cover the experiment costs if Higgins can pass Eliza off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party. Higgins bathes Eliza and gives her new clothes. Eliza's father Alfred Doolittle demands her return, but his real intention is to get money. The professor, amused by Doolittle's rhetoric, gives him five pounds. On his way out, the dustman fails to recognize the now clean, pretty flower girl as his daughter.
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Book Book Jammu Fiction Fiction 822.912 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available IIMJ-9276
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George Bernard Shaw, a 20th-century dramatist, literary critic, and showman, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. One night, two gentlemen, Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering, meet in Covent Garden. Higgins bets on his phonetics knowledge to transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney-speaking flower girl, into a well-spoken duchess. Eliza appears at Higgins' laboratory and offers to pay a shilling for speech lessons. Pickering agrees to cover the experiment costs if Higgins can pass Eliza off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party. Higgins bathes Eliza and gives her new clothes. Eliza's father Alfred Doolittle demands her return, but his real intention is to get money. The professor, amused by Doolittle's rhetoric, gives him five pounds. On his way out, the dustman fails to recognize the now clean, pretty flower girl as his daughter.

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