Arthur Kipps grows up in New Romney with an aunt and uncle and is apprenticed to a draper’s emporium in Folkestone, where he dreams of his wood-carving teacher, Helen Walshingham. A sudden inheritance makes him rich, and he tries earnestly to master the manners of society while his childhood sweetheart Ann remains in his thoughts.
Wells’s warm comedy of class and money, later the basis for the musical Half a Sixpence. Download the free EPUB.