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en-wikipedia-org-5984		Kipps - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2627	242	76	At one time Wells intended to develop Masterman into a major character (and indeed convert Kipps to socialism) and wrote several versions in which he played an important role at the end of the novel; but in the end, he eliminated Masterman altogether from the novel's conclusion.[8] Wells was eager for the novel to succeed, and he harassed Macmillan with unorthodox ideas for publicity like sandwich men in the West End theatre district and posters saying "Kipps Worked Here" outside Portsmouth & Southsea railway station.[13] Smith called the novel "a masterpiece" and argued that with Kipps, The History of Mr Polly, and Tono-Bungay, Wells "is able to claim a permanent place in English fiction, close to Dickens, because of the extraordinary humanity of some of the characters, but also because of his ability to invoke a place, a class, a social scene."[16]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5984.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5984.txt