Tono-Bungay Author:H.G. Wells Mischievous, stimulating, aromatic, attractive, Tono-Bungay is a patent medicine. It brings a quick fortune to a conscience-ridden scientist and his uncle, a loveable Satan of early mass production. And it launches them on a series of semicomic, sometimes grotesque adventures in gray, anonymous, turn-of-the-century London--adventures which culmi... more »nate in the downfall of their product empire and a flight from creditors by night in a strange and experimental airship. Alternating between vaudevillan gusto and the economic incisiveness of high satire, Tono-Bungay merges the traditional character chronicle with the modern novel of social invective. Henry James described its author's style as one of "robust pitch" and lauded Wells for possessing an eye and ear comparable to Dickens'.« less