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On a rainy night in Covent Garden, phonetics professor Henry Higgins meets Eliza Doolittle, a flower girl with a broad working-class accent. He bets Colonel Pickering that in six months he can teach her to speak like a lady well enough to fool high society. The experiment succeeds beyond expectation — but once Eliza has become a poised gentlewoman she finds she belongs to neither her old world nor her new one, and forces Higgins to reckon with the person he has remade.

Contents

  1. PREFACE TO PYGMALION
  2. Chapter 1
  3. Chapter 2
  4. Chapter 3
  5. Chapter 4
  6. Chapter 5

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