Cover of Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells Audiobook Tono-Bungay
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Tono-Bungay

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
11 hours 49 minutes
ISBN
9781802564969
Published
10 April 2017
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

George Ponderevo helps sell Tono-Bungay, a tonic that cures nothing and makes a fortune anyway. Money rises; meaning thins. Spoken as satire of get-rich medicine and the hollow boom of a country learning to advertise itself.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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