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Tono-bungay a novel

George Ponderevo leaves college to help his Uncle Edward market Tono-Bungay, a worthless medicine. But when the medicine becomes a huge commercial success, causing George to reflect on the corrupt nature of English society.

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  • "Tono-Bungay"@pl
  • "Tono-Bungay"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay"
  • "托诺邦盖"
  • "Modern utopia"@en
  • "Modern utopia"
  • "Modern Utopia"@en
  • "TonoBungay"@en
  • "Sammlung"

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  • "George Ponderevo leaves college to help his Uncle Edward market Tono-Bungay, a worthless medicine. But when the medicine becomes a huge commercial success, causing George to reflect on the corrupt nature of English society."@en
  • "This tale is about a harmful compound promoted as a mystical cure-all."@en
  • "Want to be rich, successful and beautiful? Healthy and strong? Look no further than Tono-Bungay - a new and powerful medicine that can change your life forever. Needless to say Tono Bungay was just another crackpot idea, a cheap bottle containing no more than an innocuous, and totally ineffectual liquid. But word of its powers had spread - and brought its entrepreneurial inventors the very wealth and fame it promised. Sardonic and hugely derisory, Tono Bungay can be read as a biting satire on the follies of English sensibilities."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medicine, he finds his life overwhelmed by its sudden success. Soon the worthless substance is turned into a formidable fortune as society becomes convinced of the merits of Tono-Bungay through a combination of skilled advertising and public credulity.-Includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a list of further reading, and detailed notes -Edward Mendelson's introduction explores the many ways in which "Tono-Bungay" satirizes the fictions and delusions that shape modern life."
  • "Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medicine, he finds his life overwhelmed by its sudden success. Soon the worthless substance is turned into a formidable fortune as society becomes convinced of the merits of Tono-Bungay through a combination of skilled advertising and public credulity.-Includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a list of further reading, and detailed notes -Edward Mendelson's introduction explores the many ways in which "Tono-Bungay" satirizes the fictions and delusions that shape modern life."@en
  • "Profiting enormously from the success of his uncle's bogus medicine, called Tono-Bungay, young George Ponderovo pursues his dream of building an airplane. As the empire of Tono-Bungay continues to grow, however, George is headed for a breakdown as he begins to question the corrupt society that allows his family to become so powerful."
  • "Philosophically minded science fiction fans will rejoice in this novel from H.G. Wells, the author regarded as one of the originators of the genre who wrote classic gems such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. Though more grounded in realism than some of his other works, Tono-Bungay offers an interesting look into the morality of scientific discovery."@en
  • ""The story follows George Ponderovo as he watches his uncle rise to power using bogus medicine" --Provided by publisher."@en
  • ""First published 1909 " Bibliography: p 347-349."
  • "Considered by many to be Well?s masterpiece, Tono-Bungay is a social commentary in the vein of Thackaray and Dickens. First published in serial form it tells the story of George Ponderovo who is apprenticed to his Uncle Edward, the inventor of the spurious medicine Tono-Bungay. As Edward grows rich from the profits of his medicine and begins to build a vast empire, George faces a personal breakdown as he watches the mechanisms of a corrupt society at work."@en
  • "A semi-autobiographical satire of Edwardian advertising and patent-medicines."@en
  • "A young science student successfully promotes a quack remedy (Tono-Bungay) created by his pharmacist uncle. This makes him rich and successful. The product's name is a play on the phrase "Ton o' bunk, eh?" The Tono-Bungay empire eventially collapses, but the main character moves on to other things."@en
  • "Společenskokritický román o zázračném "všeléku" Tony-Bungay a o fantastickém podnikatelském rozmachu, který si na něm vybuduje anglický maloměstský drogista doby edwardovské ve snaze finančně a společensky prospět svémuchudému synovci. Podnik však skončí krachem a mladý synovec, zmoudřelý lekcí z občanské morálky, musí nakonec situaci zachraňovat sám."
  • "The story of an apprentice chemist whose uncle's worthless medicine becomes a spectacular marketing success, Tono-Bungay earned H. G. Wells immediate acclaim when it appeared in 1909. It remains a sparkling chronicle of chicanery and human credulity, and is today regarded by many as Wells's greatest novel. As Andrea Barrett observes in her Introduction, "Through its detailed, often brilliant descriptions and powerful imagery, [Tono-Bungay] slyly satirizes British imperial policy as a whole. . . . The insights into class, money, advertising, public relations, and the power of the press still ring horrifyingly true." This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the original 1909 edition. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "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."
  • "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."@en

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Biography"
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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Satires"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Downloadable World Book ebooks"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl

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  • "Tōno bangei"
  • "Tono-bungay a novel"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay : novela"@es
  • "Tono-Bungay : novela"
  • "Tono-Bangi : roman"
  • "Tono-Bungay : [a novel.]"@en
  • "Tuo nuo -bang gai"
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  • "Tono-bungay"
  • "Tono-bungay"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay and a modern utopia"
  • "Tono-Bungay ; and, a modern utopia"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay. With an introduction by Norman H. Strouse & illustrated by Lynton Lamb"@en
  • "Tono Bungay ; and, A modern utopia"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay : [a novel]"
  • "Tono Bangei"
  • "Tono-Bungay and A Modern Utopia"
  • "Tono-Bungay. With an introd. and notes by A.C. Ward"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay : [novel]"
  • "Tono-Bungay, etc"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay : román"
  • "Tono-Bungay; a novel"
  • "Tongo-Bungay"
  • "Tono-Bungay"@pl
  • "Tono-Bungay"@sv
  • "Tono-Bungay"@es
  • "Tono-Bungay"@ja
  • "Tono-Bungay"
  • "Tono-Bungay"@en
  • "Tono- Bungay"
  • "Tono-bungay ; A Modern Utopia"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay : a romance of commerce"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay : regény"@hu
  • "Tono-Bungay : regény"
  • "Tono-Bungay, a novel"
  • "Tono-Bungay, a novel"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay román"
  • "Tono:Bungay"
  • "Tono Bungay : and, A modern Utopia"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay. With an introduction by C.M. Joad. [With a portrait.]"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay : Roman"
  • "Tono-Bungay ; A modern Utopia"@en
  • "Toao-Bungay"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay ; and, A modern Utopia"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay, by H.G. Wells, with introd. and notes by H. Watanabe"@en
  • "Tono Bungay : roman"
  • "Tono-Bungay A Modern Utopia"
  • "トーノ・バンゲイ"
  • "Tono-bungay : a novel"
  • "Tono Bungay"
  • "Tono Bungay"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay regény"
  • "Tono-Bungay ; and A modern utopia"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay a novel"@en
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  • "Tonobungay"@en
  • "Tono-Bungay and Modern Utopia"
  • "Tono-Bungay, by H. G. Wells"
  • "Tono-Bungay : a novel"
  • "Tono-Bungay : a novel"@en
  • "Tono - Bungay"
  • "Tono-Bungay [dt.] Roman"
  • "Tono-Bungay with an introd. by C.M. Joad"@en
  • "Tono Benge : roman"
  • "Tono-bangi : roman"@sr

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