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Tono-Bungay

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A sharp English social novel about advertising, commerce, ambition, class, and modern capitalism.

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Tono-Bungay

Tono-Bungay is H. G. Wells’s comic and critical portrait of a patent-medicine empire, following George Ponderevo through family schemes, business illusions, social climbing, and moral disillusionment. This original English edition is ideal for readers of classic satire, early twentieth-century fiction, and novels about capitalism, technology, and modern life.

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H. G. Wells died in 1946, and Tono-Bungay was first published in 1909; these dates support the public-domain basis for this original English edition.

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Tono-Bungay

H. G. Wells

Capitolo in anteprimaBOOK THE FIRSTAnteprima

BOOK THE FIRST

Capitolo in anteprimaTHE DAYS BEFORE TONO-BUNGAY WAS INVENTEDAnteprima

THE DAYS BEFORE TONO-BUNGAY WAS INVENTED

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02BOOK THE FIRST
  3. 03THE DAYS BEFORE TONO-BUNGAY WAS INVENTED
  4. 04CHAPTER THE FIRST
  5. 05OF BLADESOVER HOUSE, AND MY MOTHER; AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIETY
  6. 06I
  7. 07II
  8. 08III
  9. 09IV
  10. 10V
  11. 11VI
  12. 12VII
  13. 13VIII
  14. 14IX
  15. 15CHAPTER THE SECOND
  16. 16OF MY LAUNCH INTO THE WORLD AND THE LAST I SAW OF BLADESOVER
  17. 17I
  18. 18II
  19. 19III
  20. 20IV
  21. 21NOW!
  22. 22WHY?
  23. 23V
  24. 24VI
  25. 25VII
  26. 26VIII
  27. 27CHAPTER THE THIRD
  28. 28THE WIMBLEHURST APPRENTICESHIP
  29. 29I
  30. 30part of my uncle’s way of talking. But I’ve learnt differently since.
  31. 31II
  32. 32part, and perhaps among other things gave my discontent with
  33. 33III
  34. 34IV
  35. 35V
  36. 36VI
  37. 37VII
  38. 38BOOK THE SECOND
  39. 39THE RISE OF TONO-BUNGAY
  40. 40CHAPTER THE FIRST
  41. 41HOW I BECAME A LONDON STUDENT AND WENT ASTRAY
  42. 42I
  43. 43II
  44. 44III
  45. 45IV
  46. 46V
  47. 47VI
  48. 48CHAPTER THE SECOND
  49. 49THE DAWN COMES, AND MY UNCLE APPEARS IN A NEW SILK HAT
  50. 50I
  51. 51THE SECRET OF VIGOUR,
  52. 52TONO-BUNGAY.
  53. 53TONO-BUNGAY!”
  54. 54II
  55. 55III
  56. 56IV
  57. 57V
  58. 58VI
  59. 59CHAPTER THE THIRD
  60. 60HOW WE MADE TONO-BUNGAY HUM
  61. 61I
  62. 62II
  63. 63CHAPTER THE FOURTH
  64. 64MARION
  65. 65I
  66. 66II
  67. 67III
  68. 68IV
  69. 69V
  70. 70VI
  71. 71VII
  72. 72VIII
  73. 73IX
  74. 74X
  75. 75XI
  76. 76BOOK THE THIRD
  77. 77THE GREAT DAYS OF TONO-BUNGAY
  78. 78CHAPTER THE FIRST
  79. 79THE HARDINGHAM HOTEL, AND HOW WE BECAME BIG PEOPLE
  80. 80I
  81. 81II
  82. 82part of his business career recedes therefore beyond the circle of any
  83. 83III
  84. 84IV
  85. 85V
  86. 86“THE SACRED GROVE.”
  87. 87HAVE YOU A NASTY TASTE IN YOUR MOUTH?
  88. 88IT IS LIVER.
  89. 89YOU NEED ONE TWENTY-THREE PILL.
  90. 90(JUST ONE.)
  91. 91NOT A DRUG BUT A LIVE AMERICAN REMEDY.
  92. 92CONTENTS.
  93. 93THE BEST PILL IN THE WORLD FOR AN IRREGULAR LIVER
  94. 94VI
  95. 95CHAPTER THE SECOND
  96. 96OUR PROGRESS FROM CAMDEN TOWN TO CREST HILL
  97. 97I
  98. 98part of my story I find it much more difficult to tell than the clear
  99. 99II
  100. 100III
  101. 101IV
  102. 102V
  103. 103VI
  104. 104VII
  105. 105VIII
  106. 106IX
  107. 107X
  108. 108CHAPTER THE THIRD
  109. 109SOARING
  110. 110I
  111. 111II
  112. 112III
  113. 113IV
  114. 114V
  115. 115part, to become self-conscious and dramatic. For many years I had been
  116. 116VI
  117. 117VII
  118. 118CHAPTER THE FOURTH
  119. 119HOW I STOLE THE HEAPS OF QUAP FROM MORDET ISLAND
  120. 120I
  121. 121II
  122. 122III
  123. 123“E—”
  124. 124IV
  125. 125V
  126. 126VI
  127. 127VII
  128. 128BOOK THE FOURTH
  129. 129THE AFTERMATH OF TONO-BUNGAY
  130. 130CHAPTER THE FIRST
  131. 131THE STICK OF THE ROCKET
  132. 132I
  133. 133II
  134. 134III
  135. 135IV
  136. 136V
  137. 137VI
  138. 138VII
  139. 139VIII
  140. 140Part of the fog became a big mastiff that came towards me and stopped
  141. 141IX
  142. 142CHAPTER THE SECOND
  143. 143LOVE AMONG THE WRECKAGE
  144. 144I
  145. 145II
  146. 146III
  147. 147IV
  148. 148CHAPTER THE THIRD
  149. 149NIGHT AND THE OPEN SEA
  150. 150I
  151. 151II
  152. 152book. This!”
  153. 153book of England from end to end. One begins in Craven Reach and it is
  154. 154part of the panorama of London is beyond all law, order, and
  155. 155III
  156. 156IV

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