Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion by George Bernard ShawWhen professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator and the scene is

Memories have the power to move us

Lectures on the Human Condition

and as a first collection Death of a Naturalist is outstanding [

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1860-1890: years of broken promises

but the bad-news stories (famine

the facts are unknowable

John Lewis-Stempel succeeds in all these things triumphantly

these superb pollinators ensure that wildflowers set seed and reappear each year

Patrick Freyne has tried a lot of stupid ideas in his life

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Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa - the 'Waldorf of Harlem' - and volunteers Ray's services as the fence