Tono-Bungay (Annotated)

Tono-Bungay is H. G. Wells's expansive 1909 "Condition of England" novel, a searching satire of commerce, class mobility, and imperial decline. Narrated by George Ponderevo, it traces the spectacular rise of a fraudulent patent medicine marketed by his uncle Edward, transforming quackery into a national business empire. Combining realist social observation with comic exuberance, autobiographical B...