Kipps

By Herbert George Wells

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 8, 2020
• ISBN: 4064066070939

Herbert George Wells

Herbert George Wells (meist abgekürzt H. G. Wells; * 21. September 1866 in Bromley; † 13. August 1946 in London) war ein englischer Schriftsteller und Pionier der Science-Fiction-Literatur. Wells, der auch Historiker und Soziologe war, schrieb u. a. Bücher mit Millionenauflage wie Die Geschichte unserer Welt. Er hatte seine größten Erfolge mit den beiden Science-Fiction-Romanen (von ihm selbst als „scientific romances“ bezeichnet) Der Krieg der Welten und Die Zeitmaschine. Wells ist in Deutschland vor allem für seine Science-Fiction-Bücher bekannt, hat aber auch zahlreiche realistische Romane verfasst, die im englischen Sprachraum nach wie vor populär sind.

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Herbert George Wells

Kipps

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066070939

Table of Contents

The Little Shop at New Romney

The Emporium

The Wood-Carving Class

Chitterlow

Swapped

The Unexpected

The New Conditions

The Walshinghams

Engaged

The Bicycle Manufacturer

The Pupil Lover

Discords

London

Kipps Enters Society

The Labyrinthodon

The Housing Problem

The Callers

Terminations

Book I.

Table of Contents

The Making of Kipps

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Book II.

Table of Contents

Mr. Coote, the Chaperon

Book III.

Table of Contents

Kippses

The Little Shop at New Romney

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

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THE LITTLE SHOP AT NEW ROMNEY

§1

Until he was nearly arrived at adolescence it did not become clear to Kipps how it was that he was under the care of an aunt and uncle instead of having a father and mother like other boys. Yet he had vague memories of a somewhere else that was not New Romney—of a dim room, a window looking down on white buildings—and of a some one else who talked to forgotten people, and who was his mother. He could not recall her features very distinctly, but he remembered with extreme definition a white dress she wore, with a pattern of little sprigs of flowers and little bows of ribbon upon it, and a girdle of straight-ribbed white ribbon about the waist. Linked with this, he knew not how, were clouded half-obliterated recollections of scenes in which there was weeping, weeping in which