He marries a woman hes not really in love with, despite being in love with another, and together they attempt to create a success of their own shop while slowly making one another miserable. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he. Search the history of over 418 billion web pages on the internet. Pollys recently nabbed a spot on the guardians top 100 books by white men, and some pages in michael schmidts the novel. Polly, stars alfred polly, a timid man who is more successful at daydreaming than working in the local drapers shops. Kipps and ann veronica are among the betterknown ones. Polly from the cradle to these present difficulties. The history of mr polly is a little masterpiece of that genre which deserves a major revival. The history of mr polly 2007 in the early 1900s alfred polly, still hankering after his dream girl christabel, marries miriam larkins and they open a shop, but, as the years go by, the marriage becomes stale and polly. Better known for his prophetic, serious novels, wells had the great ability to combine serious intent with wonderful humour. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Search the history of over 424 billion web pages on the internet. Chapters 16 depict his life up to age 20, when he marries his cousin miriam larkins and sets up an outfitters shop in fishbourne.