Shaw, George Bernard <br/><br/>
Pygmalion 

 - New Delhi  Peacock Books  2023 
 - 97p. 
 - George Bernard Shaw collection .
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<br/><br/> George Bernard Shaw, a 20th-century dramatist, literary critic, and showman, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. One night, two gentlemen, Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering, meet in Covent Garden. Higgins bets on his phonetics knowledge to transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney-speaking flower girl, into a well-spoken duchess. Eliza appears at Higgins' laboratory and offers to pay a shilling for speech lessons. Pickering agrees to cover the experiment costs if Higgins can pass Eliza off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party. Higgins bathes Eliza and gives her new clothes. Eliza's father Alfred Doolittle demands her return, but his real intention is to get money. The professor, amused by Doolittle's rhetoric, gives him five pounds. On his way out, the dustman fails to recognize the now clean, pretty flower girl as his daughter. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788124802960 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Speech and social status - Drama.<br/>Linguistics teachers - Drama.<br/>Social classes - Drama.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>822.912   / SHA