The Classic Book Discussion Group will be reading George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion this month:
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: The most successful play by the Nobel Prize-winning Irish playwright, and basis for the movie and Broadway musical My Fair Lady.
Based on the Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, George Bernard Shaw’s witty adaptation features linguistic expert Professor Henry Higgins, who encounters a cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle. Boasting that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess by teaching her to speak correctly and polishing up her manners, Higgins does not believe he will ever have to prove his claim until Eliza shows up on his doorstep asking for elocution lessons.
Eliza’s subsequent transformation fools London society, but makes both Eliza and Higgins question whether they can return to the lives they had before their extraordinary experiment.
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An in-person discussion of Pygmalion will be held on Thursday, May 25, at 3:00 PM. No registration is required to attend.
Copies of Pygmalion are currently available on our 1st Floor on the Book Discussion Shelf (just behind our New Books shelves).
You can also download a copy of Pygmalion as an ebook (through Hoopla or Libby/Overdrive) or as an audiobook (through Hoopla).
Published on May 3, 2023.
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