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17 de dic. de 2016 · Title: The History of Mr. Polly Summary: Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he ... Directed by: Anthony Pelissier Actors: John Mills, Sally Ann Howes, Betty Ann Davies Production Company: Two ...
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IV. — MR. POLLY AN ORPHAN § I. Then a great change was brought about in the life of Mr. Polly by the death of his father. His father had died suddenly—the local practitioner still clung to his theory that it was imagination he suffered from, but compromised in the certificate with the appendicitis that was then so fashionable—and Mr. Polly found himself heir to a debateable number of ...
9 de may. de 2017 · Audio CD. $27.95. The History of Mr. Polly is a 1910 comic novel by H. G. Wells. Mr. Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning ...
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3 de ene. de 2012 · A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes everything. H.G. Wells’ early life as the son of a semi-insolvent shopkeeper and as a draper’s apprentice fueled his novels of the lower middle class: The Wheels of Chance (1896), Kipps (1905), and The History of Mr. Polly (1910).
cover. OF MR. POLLY. TONO-BUNGAY. ETC., ETC. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1910, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929. The longest-living author of this work died in 1946, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 77 years ...
The protagonist of The History of Mr. Polly is an antihero inspired by H. G. Wells' early experiences in the drapery trade: Alfred Polly, born circa 1870, a timid and directionless young man living in Edwardian England, who despite his own bumbling achieves contented serenity with little help from those around him. Mr. Polly's most striking characteristic is his "innate sense of epithet ...
The History of Mr. Polly: With Andrew Sachs, Anita Carey, John Clive, Ann Beach. Having lost his job as a shop assistant, Alfred Polly buys a bicycle and travels around meeting people.
