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Vendido como si de una milagrosa panacea se tratara, el tónico Tono-Bungay es un líquido sin ningún efecto positivo. George, que ayuda a su tío a vender la inocua medicina, ve con sorpresa el éxito del brebaje. Pronto Tono-Bungay se convierte en fuente de fortuna al tiempo que la sociedad británica se convence de sus milagr osos efectos gracias a una publicidad bien orquestada y una ...
13 de feb. de 2017 · H. G. Wells's 1908 novel Tono-Bungay Footnote 1 is a remarkable concoction, binding together characters and setting out of Dickens, sparkling imitations of fin-de-siécle commodity culture and new media, bitter social satire inflected by Wells's socialism, fascination with invention and flight, and murderous imperial adventure.
Promocionado como si fuera la panacea universal, Tono-Bungay no es más que un tónico de sabor agradable sin ningún efecto beneficioso para la salud que se pueda demostrar. Aun así, cuando George Ponderevo empieza a trabajar con su tío en la venta de la pócima, no deja de sorprenderse de un éxito que cambiará sus vidas por completo.
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.
28 de jun. de 2005 · I read Tono Bungay shortly after reading 'A man of parts' and enjoyed it the more for that. This is a very professionally structured book which looks to have been carefully and repeatedly rewritten. A downside of this is that sometimes it appears laboured but this is a small price to pay for general excellence.
- H. G. Wells
Tono-Bungay. Condition: Fair. 1964. First Edition Thus. 335 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Slight cracking to binding, pages remain attached. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscription to first page. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Abstract. In his autobiography Wells records that after the building of Spade House ‘presently I was finishing Kipps and making notes for what I meant to be a real full-length novel at last, Tono-Bungay, a novel, as I imagined it, on Dickens-Thackeray lines….’ 8 There can be no doubt that he regarded Tono-Bungay as a very ambitious novel ...
