Pygmalion Michael Ondaatje For 15-year-old Michael Berg

For 15-year-old Michael Berg

This seminal work is presented with The Voyage of the Beagle

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Pygmalion Michael Ondaatje For 15-year-old Michael BergPygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, 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