Pygmalion

ISBN-13

978-1503290907

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Publisher

Black & White Classics

First Published

1912

Print Year

2014

Lexile

1340L

Genre

Comedy and Social commentary

Synopsis

Eliza Doolittle was selling flowers when her speech is overheard by Henry Higgins. Higgins proclaims he can transform Eliza from a flower merchant to a lady of a higher social class simply by teaching her phonetics. Eliza seeks Higgins’s teachings and embarks on a transformation of language, class, and identity.

Themes

Power of words, identity, language, relationships, social class