Pygmalion & Other Plays. Shaw G. B.

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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. Читать дальше…