Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul
About this audiobook
Artie Kipps is destined at the tender age of fourteen for a life of drudgery in the drapery trade ... until he unexpectedly inherits a fortune from a grandfather he never knew existed!
Enter:
A whisky-drinking actor and playwright who persuades Kipps to invest in his play!
A down-on-their-luck mother and daughter who promptly see Kipps as a means to escape their (comparative) poverty!
Plenty of patronizing, unthinking social snobs! ...
And the stage is set for inevitable disaster as Kipps, stumbling uncomprehendingly through the English class system, is fleeced of his fortune.
But all is not lost. Despite the allure of wealth and class ambitions, Kipps has never quite forgotten his childhood sweetheart. Through Kipps’s endearing bewilderment and simplicity of thought, Wells makes us both laugh and cry as the two re-unite and ...
... but you’ll have to listen to the story to find out how it all ends!
About the author
Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, England to a working-class family. His first novel, The Time Machine, was an instant success and Wells produced a series of science fiction novels which pioneered ideas of the future. His later work focused on satire and social criticism. Wells’ socialist views are evident in his Outline of History; his writings forecasted the rise of major cities and suburbs, economic globalization, and aspects of future military conflicts. Wells died in 1946.
Tim Dehn resides in Melbourne, Australia. He narrated the audiobook version of Tony Rinaudo’s autobiography, The Forest Underground: Hope for a Planet in Crisis, winner of the Australian Christian Book of the Year Award 2022.
