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ZIN Product Number: 10383136
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 530 pages
Publisher: Amereon, Limited
ISBN: 0891906983
Release Date: Jan 7, 1997
| |  | | | In Brief
George Ponderevo helps his uncle market a worthless patent medicine, Tono-Bungay. When it becomes a success, George begins to doubt current society and begins a series of experiments with new social orders. The novel ends as he sails toward a new world.
| | | | From The Publisher
George Ponderovo's quiet young life is changed for ever when he is forced to leave home and is apprenticed to his dynamic Uncle Edward in his chemist's shop. Edward, determined to 'strike out', invents a bogus medicine called Tono-Bungay which earns him a vast fortune. George's share of the wealth enables him to live out his fantasies by building an aeroplane. As he witnesses the spectacular rise of the Tono-Bungay empire he contemplates a corrupt English society that allows his uncle to wield so much power. This is the only popular edition of the text to include Wells's final revisions. The notes explain his multi-layered allusions, and the Introduction places the novel in its literary and historical context.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Often said to be the best of Wells's many novels. George Pondecorvo is apprenticed to his Uncle Edward, a dynamic chemist who invents a bogus medicine, Tono-Bungay, and makes a fortune. Wells sets the stories of Edward's spectacular rise and of George's personal disintegration against a background of English social corruption and imperial decadence
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Great Britain, Fiction, Marketing, Patent medicines, Fiction, Fiction - General, Literary
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