Dimensions
130 x 200 x 20mm
Young Artie Kipps is desperate to escape a living death in the retail trade. Embarking on self-improvement he allows first a lady, then an unexpected legacy, to turn his head - until, paradoxically, "ruin" saves him.
H G Wells pokes fun at a whole gallery of social pretensions - from the savoir faire of high society, through the pomp and gravitas of playwrights and socialists, to middle-class snobbery - in his witty portrait of a draper's assistant bent on acquiring refinement.
The only paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, text summary, selected criticism and chronology of Wells's life and times.
