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The Observer 02 Mar 2020
Finally, Tono-Bungay has made SydneyH want to read more HG Wells. ... George and his uncle Edward make their fortune selling Tono-Bungay, a tonic that is useless and even potentially harmful ... In Tono-Bungay, I felt that there was clear evidence that Wells was exerting himself much more in the writing of his descriptive prose.
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How HG Wells invented the modern world

New Statesman 15 Jan 2020
Wells was a prolific and visionary writer – but his major legacy is political ... *** ... It is, Roberts says, “a whale of a novel ... “It is said that the Jew is incurably a parasite on the apparatus of credit,” he wrote in Anticipations , and his portraits of capitalists in Tono-Bungay (1909) and The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) are casually anti-Semitic.
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HG Wells’s forgotten fiction

New Statesman 29 May 2019
HG Wells is best known for his science fiction, but in Tono-Bungay the alien invaders are those attempting to climb the social ladder ... Tono-Bungay ... Tono-Bungay examines too the hypocrisy-filled circus that was late Victorian and Edwardian society.
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