Kipps
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What would you do if sudden wealth transformed you overnight from a draper's assistant into a gentleman of means — and the money only made everything worse? H.G. Wells' Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul chronicles the comic and deeply poignant misadventures of Arthur Kipps, a kind-hearted but uneducated young man in Edwardian England who inherits a fortune and finds himself hopelessly adrift in a rigid class-obsessed society that neither accepts nor forgives him. With razor-sharp wit and warm human sympathy, Wells anatomises the cruel absurdities of social aspiration, exposing how wealth without breeding becomes a trap rather than a liberation. A masterwork of social satire, Kipps stands alongside Wells' finest literary achievements, illustrating his remarkable ability to blend biting critique with genuine tenderness for his characters. Written in 1905, the novel draws on Wells' own experiences of poverty and social climbing, lending the narrative an autobiographical authenticity that resonates long after the final page. The novel argues, with devastating clarity, that the true cost of money is the self — leaving readers to wonder whether Kipps ever truly escapes the world that swallowed him whole.
Author: H.G. Wells
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What would you do if sudden wealth transformed you overnight from a draper's assistant into a gentleman of means — and the money only made everything worse? H.G. Wells' Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul chronicles the comic and deeply poignant misadventures of Arthur Kipps, a kind-hearted but uneducated young man in Edwardian England who inherits a fortune and finds himself hopelessly adrift in a rigid class-obsessed society that neither accepts nor forgives him. With razor-sharp wit and warm human sympathy, Wells anatomises the cruel absurdities of social aspiration, exposing how wealth without breeding becomes a trap rather than a liberation. A masterwork of social satire, Kipps stands alongside Wells' finest literary achievements, illustrating his remarkable ability to blend biting critique with genuine tenderness for his characters. Written in 1905, the novel draws on Wells' own experiences of poverty and social climbing, lending the narrative an autobiographical authenticity that resonates long after the final page. The novel argues, with devastating clarity, that the true cost of money is the self — leaving readers to wonder whether Kipps ever truly escapes the world that swallowed him whole.