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Kipps : the story of a simple soul / by H. G. Wells.

Title: Kipps : the story of a simple soul / by H. G. Wells.
Author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Publication: New York : C. Scribner's sons, 1905.

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479 p.; 20 cm.

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Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman and the inheritor of his fortune. Thrown dramatically into the upper classes, he struggles desperately to learn the etiquette and rules of polite society. But as he soon discovers, becoming a true gentleman is neither as easy nor as desirable as it at first appears. Wells satirized what he saw as a gross stupidity and blight upon English society; the pretensions of and obsession with class. The basis for the musical Half a Sixpence.

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Orphans > Fiction
Inheritance and succession > Fiction
Working class > England > Fiction
Young men > England > Fiction
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction

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^^^05032391^

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1344678

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