Pygmalion and Related Readings Author:George Bernard Shaw The distinguished yet misanthropic and perhaps misogynistic linguist Henry Higgins teaches a common flower girl to speak and act like a lady and, to his own great surprise, falls in love with her. — Pygmalion : flower girl is transformed into princess : play / by Bernard Shaw -- — Story of Pygmalion from The metamorphoses : a sculptor falls in lov... more »e with the statue he creates : poem / by Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries --
Excerpt from My fair lady : a musical version of Pygmalion : play / by Alan Jay Lerner --
Her first ball : she could have danced all night : short story / by Katherine Mansfield --
The London language from The story of English : what is cockney? : essay / by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert Mac Neil --
Mother tongue : a fiction writer and the language that nurtured her : essay / by Amy Tan --
Two words : a story about language and power : short story / by Isabel Allende ; translated by Alberto Manguel --
The model : what lies behind the artist's gaze? : short story / by Bernard Malamud --
Words : in defense of bad grammar : poem / by Vern Rutsala« less