Title: Kipps
Subtitle: the story of a simple soul
Description: 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: Fiction, Young men, Working class, Orphans, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Comedy, Name, Orphans -- Fiction, Working class -- Fiction, England -- Fiction, Bildungsromans, Young men -- Fiction, Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Places: England
Time periods: 1900's