Bernard Shaw
1) Pygmalion
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English
Description
An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London.
2) Seven plays
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English
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These plays are included in this volume: Caesar and Cleopatra, Mrs. Warren's Profession; Arms and the Man; Candida; saint Joan; Man and Superman and the Devil's Disiple.
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Penguin books volume PL2
Enriched classics
Signet classic volume CE 2476
Bernard Shaw library
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Enriched classics
Signet classic volume CE 2476
Bernard Shaw library
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English
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A reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor 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 ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own....
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English
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2023 ALA Children's Award Winners and Nominees
Delicious Reads (teens)
Historical Reads
Jewish American Heritage Month - Teens
Delicious Reads (teens)
Historical Reads
Jewish American Heritage Month - Teens
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It's 1830s England, and Culinarians--doyens who consult with society's elite to create gorgeous food and confections--are the cr̈me de la cr̈me of high society. Helena Higgins, top of her class at the Royal Academy, has a sharp demeanor and an even sharper palate--and knows stardom awaits her if she can produce greatness in her final year. Penelope Pickering is going to prove the value of non-European cuisine to all of England. Her contemporaries...
18) Man and superman
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Penguin books volume 8
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English
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A comedy and philosophy, "Man and Superman" is based on the Don Juan theme and, using all the elements from Mozart's "Don Giovani", Geroge Bernaard Shaw reordered them so that Don Juan becomes the quarry instead of the huntsman.
19) Major Barbara
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English
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"A play about poverty and society, dramatized in the struggle between a wealthy man and his daughter, Barbara, who works with the Salvation Army."
20) My fair lady
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English
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Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.