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Shaws works (general view) Short stories: The Black Girl in Search of God (1932) The Miraculous Revenge (he also wrote some essays) Shaws works (general view) Drama: Widowers Houses (1892) Mrs Warrens Profession (1893) The Devils Disciple (1897) The Man of Destiny (1895) Man and Superman (1902–03) Major Barbara (1905) Androcles and the Lion (1912) Pygmalion (1912–13) Heartbreak House (1919) Saint Joan (1923) The Apple Cart (1929) and so on. (He lived a long life and wrote 51plays these are some famous works) Professor Higgins was a scientist of phonetics, one day he met with Eliza Doolittle, the cockney speaking Covent Garden flower girl . He told Eliza that she would always be poor with her poor accent. Eliza was a flower girl with a tongue of very harsh English to the upper society. The next morning, the girl appeared at his laboratory to ask for speech lessons, offering to pay a shilling, so that she might speak properly enough to work in a flower shop. Higgins made merciless fun of her, but was seduced by the idea of working his magic on her. Colonel Pickering was a linguist of Indian dialects. He goaded Higgins on by agreeing to cover the costs of the experiment if Higgins could pass Eliza off as a duchess at an ambassadors garden party. The challenge was taken, and Higgins started by having his housekeeper bathe Eliza and gave her new clothes. Then Elizas father Alfred Doolittle came to demand the return of his daughter, though his real intention was to hit Higgins up for some money. The professor, amused by Doolittles unusual rhetoric, gave him five pounds. On his way out, the dustman failed to recognize the clean, pretty flower girl as his daughter. For a number of months, Higgins has trained Eliza to speak properly. Two trials for Eliza follow. The first occured at Higgins mothers home, where Eliza attracted Freddy . A second trial, which took place some months later at an ambassadors party, was a resounding success. The wager was definite