Tono-Bungay
Subtitle: a novel
By: by H.G. Wells
Publisher: Duffield & Company
Published: 1909
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Description: Tono-Bungay (1909) is widely regarded as Wells's finest novel, combining futuristic science fiction and contemporary social satire. In it, George Ponderovo is apprenticed to his Uncle Edward, a dynamic chemist who invents a bogus medicine, Tono-Bungay, and earns a vast fortune. But as he witnesses Edward's spectacular rise, he also contemplates the corrupt English society that allows his uncle to wield so much power.