Kipps: With an introduction by D.J. Taylor (Everyman Paperback Classics) - Softcover

Wells, H.G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 046087277X ISBN 13: 9780460872775

Publisher: Phoenix, 1993

Synopsis

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Review:

You can enjoy the novel as a jolly yarn about faux pas - there's a bit of Kipps in most of us - but you also sense that Wells found its theme a little close to the bone . . . As social inequality threatens to rise, it's hard not to wonder - despite the happy ending - if Kipps belongs to Britain's future as well as its past (GUARDIAN)

A disguised autobiography, an economic clarion call, a successful attempt to extend the English novel's social range . . . [Kipps] is, above all, a horribly funny book, written by a man who still believed that the most effective way of attacking something was to laugh at it (D.J. Taylor)

A Dickensian comedy about one ordinary man's struggle for self-improvement (GUARDIAN)

The novel combines rich comedy and biting social criticism with Dickensian verve (David Lodge Guardian)

About the Author:

H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent in 1866. After working as a draper's apprentice and pupil-teacher, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in 1884, studying under T. H. Huxley. He was awarded a first-class honours degree in biology and resumed teaching but had to retire after a kick from an ill-natured pupil afflicted his kidneys. He worked in poverty in London as a crammer while experimenting in journalism and stories. It was with THE TIME MACHINE (1895) that he had his real breakthrough.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 046087277X
• ISBN 13: 9780460872775
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310