KIPPS, STORY OF A SIMPLE SOUL includes BIOG NOTE; INTRO. NOTE ON TEXT; PREFACE TO ATLANTIC ED; LIST OF TEXTUAL EMENATIONS; ; Penguin Classics series

WELLS, H. G.;.JAMES, SIMON, J. ED, NOTES.;.LODGE, DAVID INTRO

ISBN 10: 0141441100 / ISBN 13: 9780141441108

Published by Penguin Books/PEARSON, 2005

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VERY GOOD Condition in Very Good Dust Jacket PAPERBACK; COVER ART SHOWS RED CHARACTERS, AND THEIR WHITE GHOSTLY SHADOWS. ; 361pg pages; A hilarious tale of one man s struggle for self improvement and a witty satire of pretension.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: KIPPS, STORY OF A SIMPLE SOUL includes BIOG NOTE; INTRO. NOTE ON TEXT; PREFACE TO ATLANTIC ED; LIST OF TEXTUAL EMENATIONS; ; Penguin Classics series
• Publisher: Penguin Books/PEARSON
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141441100
• ISBN 13: 9780141441108
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Illustrated by Gibb, KATE COVER ART
• Edition: PAPERBACK; 006pt.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

A hilarious tale of one man’s struggle for self improvement and a witty satire of pretension

Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman - and the inheritor of his fortune. Thrown dramatically into the upper classes, he struggles desperately to learn the etiquette and rules of polite society. But as he soon discovers, becoming a 'true gentleman' is neither as easy nor as desirable as it at first appears.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About the Author

H.G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist, who published more than a hundred books, including novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. Wells's prophetic imagination was first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction, but later he became an apostle of socialism, science and progress. His controversial views on sexual equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham University.

Simon J. James is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Durham. He has written on, and edited works by, George Gissing, H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens.