Pygmalion

The book includes two famous plays of the outstanding George Bernard Show, the British playwright-innovator, the founder (along with Ibsen and Chekhov) of the XX century intellectual theater, the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Oscar Prize. Pygmalion (1913) is the story of the London professor of the phonetics of Henry Higgins, who created a secular lady from the street flower grinder, and at the same time the story of the Flower Indoor Eliza Dutlitl, which made Higgins see in it not just material for an interesting experiment, but a living person, became the basis of the most famous The musical “My Beautiful Lady” (1956) and his Oscar -winning film adaptation (1964) with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in the lead roles. In the “House where the hearts are broken” (1913–1917) a bizarre house-ship, where guests lead continuous and barren disputes about love and the meaning of life to the accompaniment of whistles and screams of the owner, sage and madman captain Schotover, gradually grows into the symbolic image of the old world entering a new age and standing on the threshold of death