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Kipps
- 系列名：Penguin Classics
- ISBN13：9780141441108
- 出版社：Penguin Classics USA
- 作者：H. G. Wells; Simon J. James (EDT); David Lodge (INT); Simon J. James
- 裝訂：平裝
- 規格：19.7cm*12.7cm*2.5cm (高/寬/厚)
- 出版日：2005/12/27
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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 after 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.
Telling the tale of one man's struggle for self-improvement, Kipps is a satire on social pretension. Part of a brand-new Penguin series of H.G. Wells's works, this edition includes a full biographical essay on Wells, a further reading list and detailed notes. The introduction, by David Lodge, places the work in its literary and social context, considers earlier drafts and traces the sources of the novels in Wells's own life.
Telling the tale of one man's struggle for self-improvement, Kipps is a satire on social pretension. Part of a brand-new Penguin series of H.G. Wells's works, this edition includes a full biographical essay on Wells, a further reading list and detailed notes. The introduction, by David Lodge, places the work in its literary and social context, considers earlier drafts and traces the sources of the novels in Wells's own life.
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Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. His father was a professional cricketer and sometime shopkeeper, his mother a former lady’s maid. Although "Bertie" left school at fourteen to become a draper’s apprentice (a life he detested), he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous Thomas Henry Huxley. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher’s salary. His other "scientific romances"—The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The War in the Air (1908)—won him distinction as the father of science fiction.
David Lodge is the author of twelve novels and a novella, including the Booker Prize finalists Small World and Nice Work. He is also the author of many works of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction and Consciousness and the Novel.
Henry James saw in Wells the most gifted writer of the age, but Wells, having coined the phrase "the war that will end war" to describe World War I, became increasingly disillusioned and focused his attention on educating mankind with his bestselling Outline of History (1920) and his later utopian works. Living until 1946, Wells witnessed a world more terrible than any of his imaginative visions, and he bitterly observed: "Reality has taken a leaf from my book and set itself to supercede me."
David Lodge is the author of twelve novels and a novella, including the Booker Prize finalists Small World and Nice Work. He is also the author of many works of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction and Consciousness and the Novel.
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