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Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (50th Anniversary Edition)

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ISBN-10: 0451530098

ISBN-13: 9780451530097

Edition: 50th (Anniversary)

Authors: George Bernard Shaw, Alan Jay Lerner, Richard Goldstone

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Based upon the Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion who fell in love with his own statue of a woman, George Bernard Shaw's celebrated play-and the musical adaptation by Alan Jay Lerner-feature phonetics professor Henry Higgins who transformed cockney flower girl Eliza into a lady.
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Book details

List price: $5.95
Edition: 50th
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 4.17" wide x 6.78" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Renowned literary genius George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. He later moved to London and educated himself at the British Museum while several of his novels were published in small socialist magazines. Shaw later became a music critic for the Star and for the World. He was a drama critic for the Saturday Review and later began to have some of his early plays produced. Shaw wrote the plays Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion, which was later adapted as My Fair Lady in both the musical and film form. He also transformed his works into screenplays for Saint Joan, How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, and Major Barbara. Shaw won the…