Tono-Bungay E-Book

Herbert George Wells

• Herausgeber: Ktoczyta.pl
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Considered one of Wells most successful attempts at a social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Wells’s tale is a panoramic view of an unravelling society. A semi-autobiographical satire of Edwardian advertising and patent-medicines. The story follows the life of a young man, George, and his Uncle Edward. Edward invents an elixir called TONO-BUNGAY and hires his nephew George to help build the company. The medicine becomes a huge commercial success, causing George to reflect on the sickness at the heart of a society that lets itself be so easily duped. He begins to search for a new order to replace the old one, a quest that leads him to dangerous aeronautical experiments. At the end of the novel, George sails down the River Thames to the open sea, toward the hopeful new world that awaits him.

Leseprobe

Contents

BOOK I. THE DAYS BEFORE TONO-BUNGAY WAS INVENTED

I. OF BLADESOVER HOUSE, AND MY MOTHER; AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIETY

II. OF MY LAUNCH INTO THE WORLD AND THE LAST I SAW OF BLADESOVER

III. THE WIMBLEHURST APPRENTICESHIP

BOOK II. THE RISE OF TONO-BUNGAY

I. HOW I BECAME A LONDON STUDENT AND WENT ASTRAY

II. THE DAWN COMES, AND MY UNCLE APPEARS IN A NEW SILK HAT

III. HOW WE MADE TONO-BUNGAY HUM

IV. MARION

BOOK III. THE GREAT DAYS OF TONO-BUNGAY

I. THE HARDINGHAM HOTEL, AND HOW WE BECAME BIG PEOPLE

II. OUR PROGRESS FROM CAMDEN TOWN TO CREST HILL

III. SOARING

IV. HOW I STOLE THE HEAPS OF QUAP FROM MORDET ISLAND

BOOK IV. THE AFTERMATH OF TONO-BUNGAY

I. THE STICK OF THE ROCKET

II. LOVE AMONG THE WRECKAGE

III. NIGHT AND THE OPEN SEA

H.G. WELLS'S SKETCHES FOR TONO-BUNGAY ADVERTISEMENTS