Author: Michelle M.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781537528939
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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It's a truth, universally acknowledged, that whenit rains, it pours! Elizabeth Bennet, impoverished and along with her four sisters from Australia, are doing all in their power to make ends meet in London, when Eliza Bennet comes upon Mr. Darcy, who is a wealthy phonetics teacher. Seeing this as the perfect opportunity, she visits him to persuade him to take her as a student so that she can get a better job. To her surprise, not only does Mr. Darcy eventually agree, but his friend Mr. Bingley and a playwright named George Bernard Shaw offers to pay for the lessons for Elizabeth and her sisters. Will Mr. Darcy succeed at helping the Bennet sisters sound like proper Englishwomen? And is Elizabeth beginning to develop feelings for the wealthy, witty and stubborn Mr. Darcy? Here comes another tale of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy... as they fall into the company of iconic playwright Bernard Shaw, the playwright who would go on to create the story that would become 'My Fair Lady'!
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 152904801X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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George Bernard Shaw is one of the most famous and celebrated Irish playwrights and this new collection brings together the very best of his witty and entertaining comedies in one volume; Pygmalion, Major Barbara and Androcles and the Lion. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has a preface by Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench. Pygmalion was first performed in 1914 and was an instant hit which then inspired the hit musical and award winning film, My Fair Lady. It tells the story of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, who tries to elevate a feisty flower girl out of her working-class roots and into high society. In Major Barbara, idealistic Barbara is a major in the Salvation Army, at odds with her millionaire father as they war over the best route to salvation. Androcles and the Lion is a clever retelling of the Bible story about a gentle Christian who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw. All three plays are not only wonderfully amusing, they also showcase Shaw's intense concerns about poverty, class and inequality.
Author: Barbara Silkstone
Publisher: Silkstone
ISBN: 9780999249512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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A Pride and Prejudice mashup with Pygmalion.
Author: Stephen Montgomery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960695454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The second part of Dr. Stephen Montgomery's quartet on love and coercion among the types focuses on the Guardians (SJ) uniquely responsible style of caring for others. Montgomery has selected characters from works of Jane Austen, Sinclair Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and half a dozen other authors to bring to life the Guardian's parental way in love and marriage, and to illustrate their earnest style of interpersonal manipulation, what Keirsey calls the Pygmalion Project. The book examines Guardians both as instigators and as victims of marital games with the Rationals (NT), the Idealists (NF) and particularly with the childlike Artisans (SP). If you have a Guardian spouse (or even a Guardian parent), this book will help you understand and appreciate them.
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521099295
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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This volume brings together nineteen essays that marked the bicentenary of Jane Austen's birth and reflect twentieth-century critical attitudes.
Author: Stewart Martin
Publisher: Letts & Londsale
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781098855147
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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The story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady teaching...
Author: Keith Garebian
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The common lament was Broadway will never be the same! when My Fair Lady finally ended its stellar run the night of Sunday, September 30, 1962. Millions of people had seen the show over six years and had helped break box-office records, even though Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway, and Robert Coote did not stay with the cast throughout the six-year run. MyFair Lady used the substance and wit of George Bernard Shaw to add a new dimension to the Broadway libretto.
Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788124800829
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Thanks to its popular musical version, My Fair Lady, Pygmalion is possibly Shaw's best known play.Pygmalion, a Greek sculptor, fell in love with the statue he had made, had life breathed into it by Venus and then married her. In Shaw's play Professor Hig
