TY - BOOK AU - Shaw,Bernard TI - Pygmalion AV - PR PY - 2003/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Comedy plays KW - Speech and social status -- Drama KW - London (England) -- Drama KW - Linguistics teachers -- Drama KW - Social classes -- Drama KW - Flower vending -- Drama N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(play); Release date is 2003-03-01; Eve Sobol. HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Pygmalion" by Bernard Shaw is a play written in 1912. When phonetics professor Henry Higgins boasts he can transform a Cockney flower girl into a duchess simply by teaching her proper speech, Colonel Pickering takes the bet. Eliza Doolittle arrives at Higgins's door seeking lessons to improve her prospects, setting in motion a social experiment that will test class boundaries and personal transformation. This witty comedy became Shaw's most popular work, later inspiring the musical "My Fair Lady." (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3825 ER -