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Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw

Label
Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Pygmalion
Medium
sound recording audiobook CD :
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Responsibility statement
by George Bernard Shaw
Summary
When phonetics tutor and linguist Henry Higgins meets Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, me make a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can teach her to speak so well that she will be able to pass herself off as a Duchess at a society ball . Eliza agrees, seduced by promises of chocolates and taxi rides-but her transformation from caterpillar to butterfly will not be easy, and the process will take its toll on both Eliza and Higgins
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