
Kipps
''FIRST ELECTRICITY. AND THEN TELEPHONES. I FEEL AS IF I WERE LIVING IN AN H G WELLS NOVEL'' DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
''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 Kipp...
''FIRST ELECTRICITY. AND THEN TELEPHONES. I FEEL AS IF I WERE LIVING IN AN H G WELLS NOVEL'' DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
''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 Kipp...