Pygmalion & Other Plays

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition has a preface by Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench. 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.