Kipps: the story of a simple soul. H. G. Wells. 2005.

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 after 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 desires it at first appears.

Telling the hilarious tale of one man’s struggle for self-improvement, Kipps is a brilliantly witty satire on social pretension.