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Tono-Bungay
Capítulos (14)
- Book I: The Days Before Tono-Bungay Was Invented: I: Of Bladesover House, and My Mother; and the Constitution of Society 0:00
- II: Of My Launch Into the World and the Last I Saw of Bladesover 1:26:48
- III: The Wimblehurst Apprenticeship 2:20:18
- Book II: The Rise of Tono-Bungay: I: How I Became a London Student and Went Astray 3:29:51
- II: The Dawn Comes, and My Uncle Appears in a New Silk Hat 4:40:16
- III: How We Made Tono-Bungay Hum 5:25:41
- IV: Marion 5:55:52
- Book III: The Great Days of Tono-Bungay: I: The Hardingham Hotel, and How We Became Big People 7:45:46
- II: Our Progress from Camden Town to Crest Hill 8:41:52
- III: Soaring 10:27:28
- IV: How I Stole the Heaps of Quap from Mordet Island 11:47:31
- Book IV: The Aftermath of Tono-Bungay: I: The Stick of the Rocket 13:02:40
- II: Love Among the Wreckage 14:11:49
- III: Night and the Open Sea 14:39:50
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Tono-Bungay, published in 1909, is a semi-autobiographical novel by H. G. Wells. Though it has some fantastical and absurdist elements, it is a realist novel rather than one of Well’s “scientific romances.”
The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of George Ponderevo, the son of the housekeeper at a large estate. He is made to feel his inferiority when he is banished after fighting with the son of one of the owner’s aristocratic relatives, and is sent to live with his own poor but religiously fervent relatives. He can’t abide or agree with their religious views and returns to his mother who sends him on to live with his Uncle, Edward Ponderevo, then a local pharmacist in a small town. Uncle Ponderevo, though, has grand plans, and eventually makes a fortune by selling a quack patent medicine he calls “Tono-Bungay.” George joins him in this endeavour and becomes rich himself, eventually turning his interests towards the new science of aeronautics. Meanwhile the Tono-Bungay scheme expands enormously and begins to topple towards its own destruction.
Throughout the novel, George comments cynically on England’s class system, the shabbiness of commerce, and the lies told in advertising. We also follow his unfortunate love life, his unwise marriage, his divorce, and his eventual reconnection with a woman he loved as a child.
Tono-Bungay met with a mixed reception on first release, but has since come to be considered as perhaps Wells’ finest realist novel, an assessment Wells himself shared.