Kipps E-Book

Herbert George Wells

• Herausgeber: Ktoczyta.pl
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles begin. After being left a fortune by a rich uncle, Kipps finds himself in a position to marry Helen Walshingham. His main problem is that he is uneducated, knowing next to nothing of the world of books or the manners of the society he aspires to join. Helen, together with Kipps’s mentor Chester Coote, set about the task of making him a gentleman: correcting his grammar, seeing him appropriately dressed and supervising his reading matter... But then he later realizes that it is best to be yourself. This is a story of wealth, manners, society, etiquette, class and social mobility, money, inequality and aspiration...

Leseprobe

Contents

BOOK ONE - THE MAKING OF KIPPS

I. THE LITTLE SHOP AT NEW ROMNEY

II. THE EMPORIUM

III. THE WOODCARVING CLASS

IV. CHITTERLOW

V. 'SWAPPED'

VI. THE UNEXPECTED

BOOK TWO - MR. COOTE THE CHAPERON

I. THE NEW CONDITIONS

II. THE WALSHINGHAMS

III. ENGAGED

IV. THE BICYCLE MANUFACTURER

V. THE PUPIL LOVER

VI. DISCORDS

VII. LONDON

VIII. KIPPS ENTERS SOCIETY

IX. THE LABYRINTHODON

BOOK THREE - KIPPSES

I. THE HOUSING PROBLEM

II. THE CALLERS

III. TERMINATIONS