Pygmalion
by Bernard Shaw
 
The language-professor Henry Higgins makes a bet that
he can pass a common flower-girl off as a duchess at an
ambassador’s garden-party, simply by training her to
speak correctly.
The lessons begin, and after six months Eliza can speak
and behave like a lady: Higgins wins his bet. But then the
real problems start…
 
What is to become of Eliza, now that Higgins has removed
her from her origins? And what are the emotional connections
between Higgins, Eliza, Colonel Pickering, and Higgins’
mother?
The famous professor soon finds himself lost in a world of
feminine feelings and sensibilities that he, with his brash
masculinity and analytical brain, cannot understand...