Pygmalion

A professor is a master in accents: "The science of speech. That's my profession; also my hobby. Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby! You can spot an Irishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue. I can place any man within six miles. I can place him within two miles in London. Sometimes within two streets."He takes up a challenge with his friend that he can turn an unrefined flower seller they come across into "a duchess".This is a play and is written as such. The idea of a suave gentleman taking a street girl/boy under their wing and giving them a taste of the high life isn't a new idea to us anymore, what with all the movies, most famously the 1990 romantic comedy "Pretty Woman". So it wasn't as interesting to me as it would have been if the concept was new to us. But this is a classic, and it's George Bernard Shaw, cannot give it less than 5 stars.It is a thin volume (82 pages). If you are a reader and need a classic for the weekend, pick it up.Oh the the print quality is fine by the way.

UBSPD is the worst publishing house in the history of book publishing.Yet I ordered this book without looking at who published it.When it arrived with a whole different cover photo, I saw how inferior the book was yet so superior to the previous purchase (Great Expectations by UBSPD) which made me write the first sentence here.The literature is very good, but the cover, the print and binding is poor. While I'd be proud to have read Shaw, it would be a disgrace to own this edition.

Shaw has showed the mentality of flower girl being helped by improvig and changing phonetics to climb her social ladder. This small book was a big help in my study of the play. It helped me overcome boring study by studying it in one day.the price is small but good for my m.a. examinations.

I love Bernard Shaw and this book doesn't fail to deliver its message. Short read but GREAT read. Love this man's sarcastic sense of humour.

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