Kipps
the story of a simple soul
Name
Comedy
Bildungsromans
Young men
Orphans, fiction
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Working class
Orphans
England, fiction
Fiction, historical, general
Fiction
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 tr…
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