Pygmalion
By Bernard Shaw
Cover: The Flower Girl (1900), oil on canvas by James Jebusa Shannon (1862-1923) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1923)
Professor Henry Higgins bets that he can pass a Covent Garden flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, off as a duchess by teaching her to speak properly. He succeeds, and then has to face the fact that he has made a woman with a will of her own.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.