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. Polly is an enchanting tale with memorable characters brought to life. Kipps and ann veronica are among the betterknown ones. Out the back it is like a scene from edwardian britain. 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. 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. Pollys recently nabbed a spot on the guardians top 100 books by white men, and some pages in michael schmidts the novel. Search the history of over 424 billion web pages on the internet.
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Polly, stars alfred polly, a timid man who is more successful at daydreaming than working in the local drapers shops. The history of mr polly is a little masterpiece of that genre which deserves a major revival. Mr polly is an ordinary middleaged man who is tired of his wifes nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentlemans outfitters. Polly 1949 quiet and somewhat directionless, alfred polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town.