Loved itmy favorite book by him is kips which is a book from 1905... i just think it's really fantastically done fantastically written fantastically explored kips is such a fantastic character and i just love it
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Kipps (1900)
Others: Positive 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781680570922
- Length:
- 381 pages
Genres: historical fiction
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