Pygmalion
4 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Delphi_Reader from Delphi - Δελφοί , Fokida Greece on Thursday, December 26, 2019
This book starts its journey with BookCrossing from Delphi, Greece
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" Pygmalion 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 ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. "
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I hope you enjoy the book!
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" Pygmalion 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 ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. "
~~~~~~To the person who found this book:~~~~~~
Welcome to BookCrossing.com, where we are trying to make the whole world a library!
If you have not already done so, please make a journal entry so we know this book has found a new home. Drop a few lines on where and how you found this book and what you thought of it. You don't need to join BookCrossing and you can remain completely anonymous. However, I encourage you to join so that you can follow this book's future travels. It's fun and free, and your personal information will never be shared or sold.
This book is now yours, and you can keep it if you choose, although I would love you to read and then share it. You can pass it on someone you know or release it once again in the wild, leaving it on a park bench, a phone booth, a hostel lobby...wherever you think it's suitable for the book to continue it's journey. If you pass it along, please make a release note to let others know where you left it.
I hope you enjoy the book!
Poignant, witty and very clever play. Seen the theater performance with the different pronunciations would make the text become more alive, but George Bernard Shaw's discriptions, explanations and filling on the gaps of the story in the written form, makes this a very compelling read.
I enjoyed it a lot!
I enjoyed it a lot!
Journal Entry 3 by Delphi_Reader at by Post, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Monday, March 2, 2020
Thank you, Delphi_Reader for the 3 books and the lovely silver snake pendant, lovely.x
Happy St Patrick's Day! Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit!
Happy St Patrick's Day! Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit!
Journal Entry 5 by estelle1806 at -- By post or by hand-ie ring, trade, RABCK, meet, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Released 3 yrs ago (7/23/2020 UTC) at -- By post or by hand-ie ring, trade, RABCK, meet, British Columbia Canada
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Travelling to the winner of the Classics Sweepstake, enjoy!
Please let us know when you release it again...
Please let us know when you release it again...
I am the lucky decoy for the round. Thank you for the book and the Shakespeare you sent as well. I look forward to a re-reading of Pygmalion. I studied the play for English Literature many many years ago and had very fond memories of it.
I still think it is brilliant and enjoyed every minute of it.
On its way to the winner of the Classics sweeps. Congratulations and happy reading!
Journal Entry 9 by Lindasaurus at Wien - irgendwo / Vienna - somewhere, Wien Austria on Friday, November 13, 2020
The book arrived in Vienna! Thank you - I haven't read it so far and am very curious!