The History of Mr. Polly
Wells, H. G. / Iannucci, Susan
Based on H. G. Wells's own life experience in the drapery trade, this comic novel presents our anti-hero, Alfred Polly, miserable, timid, and without direction, but with a gift for creating incomprehensible conversational "epithets" to express himself. No one quite understands what he has just said to them ... Was it a compliment? An insult? Was it profound or absurd?The novel opens by telling us, "He hated Foxbourne, he hated Foxbourne High S...