Kipps
the story of a simple soul
About this book
Partly based on Wells’ own experiences as a young man this novel centres on an orphan who becomes apprenticed to a draper. Bored with his humdrum existence of living and working in a drapers, Kipps’ life changes radically when he inherits a fortune from a previously unknown relative. However more troubles occur when he attempts to emulate the people he encounters in upper class society.
Subjects
- bildungsromans
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- comedy
- england -- fiction
- england, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, historical, general
- great britain -- social life and customs -- 19th century -- fiction
- name
- orphans
- orphans -- fiction
- working class
- working class -- fiction
- young men
- young men -- fiction