{"product_id":"pygmalion","title":"Pygmalion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if changing your voice opens doors—but leaves everyone else claiming the right to decide who you are?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a rainy night in London's Covent Garden, flower seller Eliza Doolittle meets Henry Higgins, a brilliant, rude professor of speech. He boasts that he can pass her off as a duchess by changing her voice. Eliza wants something more practical: speech that will help her find work in a shop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Bernard Shaw's five-act comedy Pygmalion, lessons become a test of manners, money and respect. Colonel Pickering offers Eliza courtesy, while Higgins treats her as an experiment. From relentless vowel drills to a visit at Mrs Higgins's home, each social test raises a sharper question: who gets to define Eliza's worth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA voice worth hearing\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet a proud, quick-tempered flower girl whose ambitions reach beyond a professor's clever wager.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLessons beyond pronunciation\u003c\/strong\u003e – Watch speech lessons expose the distance between sounding respectable and treating another person with respect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComedy in the drawing room\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Eliza into Mrs Higgins's gathering, where her new speech faces its first social test.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe price of respectability\u003c\/strong\u003e – Hear Alfred Doolittle challenge a morality that he believes the poor cannot afford.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMore than a makeover\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore Shaw's pointed questions about class, independence and the limits of remaking another person.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers curious about class and speech, and anyone coming to the play through a film or musical rather than seeking a plain romance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and meet Eliza before anyone tries to tell her who she should be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"eBook","offer_id":58289238081884,"sku":"LOA-C86-EB","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook — Coming soon","offer_id":58289238114652,"sku":"LOA-C86-AU","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58289238147420,"sku":"LOA-C86-PB","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":58289238180188,"sku":"LOA-C86-HC","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/0086_Pygmalion__standard__ebook__pages-120__trim-6x9in__1800x2700px.jpg?v=1784148932","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/fr\/products\/pygmalion","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}