Each year since 1992 Montblanc pays tribute to great people and their lifetime work called the “Writers Edition”. To remember these people, they release a writing instrument in their memory. The year 2008 Montblanc celebrates the life of George Bernard Shaw – a classic Irish playwright, critic and polemicist (1856-1950). His Western influence which extended from his death and over sixty plays won his Nobel Prices and Academy Awards. Some of his most famous work included Pygmalion, Saint Joan and Superman.
Shaw started very young writing plays. However, unfortunately despite the time he spent writing them, he sadly got nowhere and his novels were dismal failures and he got many rejections. Eventually he found his platform in literacy. He wrote for the next fifty years but the plays he had written in the twenty after “Man and Superman” became his foundational plays such as “Androcles and the Lion”, “The Doctors Dilemma and Pygmalion” – his most famous, which was adapted to the big screen in 1938. Shaw went to further fame when he adapted the play into a musical and was on Broadway in 1956 with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews starring and later again on screen with Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.
Dark green marbled lacquer punctuated with platinum-plated fittings. These are the style features of the new Writers Edition in honor of the distinguished Irish free thinker George Bernard Shaw. The pen is inspired by Shaw’s best-known character from his play “Pygmalion” – Eliza Doolittle. Just as Eliza, a poor flower girl, is brought up to be an aristocratic lady, so the fine platinum of the pen is replaced more and more towards the cap by the opulent dark green of the precious resin. This deep, marbled green, indeed, originally represents the lush green meadows of Ireland that Shaw left behind. And lastly, the handcrafted 18K rhodium-plated gold nib beautifully engraved with a flower evokes Shaw’s figure of the flower girl.
Launch 2008
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