Pygmalion - Couverture rigide

Shaw, George Bernard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1421851512 ISBN 13 : 9781421851518

Editeur : 1st World Library, 2013

Synopsis

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place. The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to English-men. The reformer England needs today is an energetic phonetic enthusiast: that is why I have made such a one the hero of a popular play. There have been heroes of that kind crying in the wilderness for many years past. When I became interested in the subject towards the end of the eighteen-seventies, Melville Bell was dead; but Alexander J. Ellis was still a living patriarch, with an impressive head always covered by a velvet skull cap, for which he would apologize to public meetings in a very courtly manner. He and Tito Pagliardini, another phonetic veteran, were men whom it was impossible to dislike. Henry Sweet, then a young man, lacked their sweetness of character: he was about as conciliatory to conventional mortals as Ibsen or Samuel Butler. His great ability as a phonetician (he was, I think, the best of them all at his job) would have entitled him to high official recognition, and perhaps enabled him to popularize his subject, but for his Satanic contempt for all academic dignitaries and persons in general who thought more of Greek than of phonetics. Once, in the days when the Imperial Institute rose in South Kensington, and Joseph Chamberlain was booming the Empire, I induced the editor of a leading monthly review to commission an article from Sweet on the imperial importance of his subject.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

With a bet Henry Higgins turns his life upside down as Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl is taught to pass as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party. Higgins believes that the only thing needed is to teach Doolittle how to speak. Taking a swipe at the social class system of the British and women's independence Bernard Shaw brings to life a humorous tale that has been retold over and over again.

Présentation de l'éditeur

First published in 1890, Hedda Gabler is one of the best known works by Norwegian playwriter Henrik Ibsen and one of the most staged plays worldwide, whose protagonist has been recognized by critics as one of the most controversial and dramatic characters in the history of fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421851512
• ISBN 13: 9781421851518
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 148
• Éditeur: 1st World Publishing
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible