Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Virtual Entertainment, 2013 Series: World classic books It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can turn a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a refined society lady merely by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, Higgins and Doolittle grow close, but she ultimately rejects his domineering ways and marries Freddy Eynsford-Hill, a young but poor gentleman. — Excerpted from Pygmalion (play) on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cover and icon are drawing of Eliza Doolittle, a character from George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, by George Luks (1867-1933) Look for other books on our site http://books.virenter.com