Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion was written in 1912 and is one of Shaw's most famous plays. The play is a romance in five acts. Shaw's play tells the story of Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. Higgins is a professor of phonetics, who takes on a bet that he can pass a cockney flower seller, Eliza Doolittle as a refined society lady. Higgins bets that he could pass her off as nobility by changing her manners and the way she speaks. In the process of transforming Eliza, Higgins falls in love with her.

This play inspired the 1964 film "My Fair Lady" starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.

A link to a free LibriVox audiobook of Pygmalion is at the end of this book.