Pygmalion & Other Plays

by George Bernard Shaw, Dame Judi Dench (Introduction)

Overview

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition has a preface by Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench.

Three of George Bernard Shaw’s most famous comedies in one volume. Entertaining and witty, each play is embedded with George Bernard Shaw’s intense concerns about poverty, class and inequality.

Pygmalion 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529048001
Publisher:	Macmillan Collector's Library
Publication date:	05/25/2021
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	1,010,196
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856 and moved to London in 1876. He initially wrote novels then went on to achieve fame through his career as a journalist, critic and public speaker. A committed and active socialist, he was one of the leaders of the Fabian Society. He was a prolific and much lauded playwright and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He died in 1950.