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Tono Bungay

✍ Scribed by H. G. Wells


Publisher
General Books LLC
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
251 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781443215343

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✦ Synopsis


Review

Novel by H.G. Wells, serialized in the English Review and published in book form in New York in 1908. Considered one of his most successful attempts at a social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Wells' tale is a panoramic view of an unravelling society. It is narrated by young George Ponderevo, who leaves college to help his Uncle Edward market Tono-Bungay, a worthless medicine. The medicine becomes a huge commercial success, causing George to reflect on the sickness at the heart of a society that lets itself be so easily duped. He begins to search for a new order to replace the old one, a quest that leads him to dangerous aeronautical experiments. At the end of the novel, George sails down the Thames to the open sea, toward the hopeful new world that awaits him. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Product Description

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