The History of Mr Polly
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More About This Title The History of Mr Polly
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A wonderful comic novel from an author best-known for his science fiction 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 his shop to the ground and killing himself. Unexpected events, however, conspire to lead the bewildered Mr Polly to a bright new futureafter he saves a life, fakes his death, and escapes to a world of heroism and hope.
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H. G. Wells (18661946) is regarded as one of the all-time greatest authors of science fiction. Giles Foden is the author of The Last King of Scotland which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and a Somerset Maugham Award and was the basis of a feature film starring Forest Whitaker.