Young Artie Kipps is desperate to escape the world of retail trade. Embarking on self-improvement, he allows first a lady and then an unexpected legacy to turn his head and ruin him. But the rum paradoxically manages to save him. H.G. Wells pokes fun at a whole gallery of social pretensions from high society to middle class snobbery in this witty portrait of a draper's assistant bent on acquiring refinement.
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Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul
Young Artie Kipps is desperate to escape the world of retail trade. Embarking on self-improvement, he allows first a lady and then an unexpected legacy to turn his head and ruin him. But the rum paradoxically manages to save him. H.G. Wells pokes fun at a whole gallery of social pretensions from high society to middle class snobbery in this witty portrait of a draper's assistant bent on acquiring refinement.
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ISBN-13: | 9783968659770 |
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Publisher: | Otbebookpublishing |
Publication date: | 04/14/2020 |
Series: | Classics To Go |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 278 |
File size: | 500 KB |
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