Pygmalion and Related Readings

Name: Pygmalion and Related Readings
ISBN: 9780395775554

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199762 pagesMcDougal Littell

The Holt McDougal Library includes a mix of fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, and biographies from a variety of reading levels for use as part of classroom curriculum or independent reading. Students will find selections they love in this extensive collection. [Pygmalion][1] : flower girl is transformed into princess : play / by Bernard Shaw -- Story of Pygmalion from The metamorphoses : a sculptor falls in love with the statue he creates : poem / by Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries -- Excerpt from My fair lady : a musical version of Pygmalion : play / by Alan Jay Lerner -- Her first ball : she could have danced all night : short story / by Katherine Mansfield -- The London language from The story of English : what is cockney? : essay / by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert Mac Neil -- Mother tongue : a fiction writer and the language that nurtured her : essay / by Amy Tan -- Two words : a story about language and power : short story / by Isabel Allende ; translated by Alberto Manguel -- The model : what lies behind the artist's gaze? : short story / by Bernard Malamud -- Words : in defense of bad grammar : poem / by Vern Rutsala. [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1066524W/Pygmalion

Avg. reading time: 1h 10m
Prose complexity: 4/10

Informative Intellectual Thought-Provoking Satirical

George Bernard Shaw

An Irish playwright.

Ovid

Ovid, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria, three major collections of erotic poetry, the Metamorphoses a mythological hexameter poem, the Fasti, about the Roman calendar, and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea. Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces, the Remedia Amoris, the Medicamina Faciei Femineae, and the Ibis, a long curse-poem. He also authored a lost tragedy, M...

Alan Jay Lerner

Alan Jay Lerner was a key figure in American musical theater, known for his work as a lyricist and librettist. He co-created beloved musicals such as My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Babes in Arms. His work also includes the play Pygmalion.

Katherine Mansfield

Born Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand, she moved to England at age 19, mixed with modernist writers there, lead a very modernist life there, and died relatively young of tuberculosis (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield>Wikipedia</a>).

Robert McCrum

Robert McCrum is an editor and literary scholar. He is known for compiling "Pygmalion and Related Readings," a key resource for understanding George Bernard Shaw's play.

Poetry Plays Drama Essays

Eliza DoolittleProtagonist

PygmalionProtagonist