Kipps
399 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1905
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ISBN: 9780141441108
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication date: 26 May 2005
Description
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.