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    Tono-Bungay /ˌtɒnoʊˈbʌŋɡi/ is a realist semiautobiographical novel written by H. G. Wells and first published in book form in 1909. It has been called...
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  • Timor Tōno Station, a Kamaishi Line railway station in Tōno, Iwate, Japan Pasar Tono, a town in Oecussi-Ambeno, East Timor Tono (name) Tono-Bungay, a 1909...
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    but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. Wells was nominated...
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  • Windmill in Suffolk, England Bungay language, an Algonquian language in Canada Bungay River in Massachusetts, USA Tono-Bungay a novel by H G Wells This disambiguation...
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    fictional character of Beatrice Normandy in H. G. Wells' realist novel Tono-Bungay (1909). Mirroring Rosalind's materialistic relationship with Amory, Sayre...
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    declared that young men stared at her ..." In the H. G. Wells novel, Tono-Bungay, George is shown about London for the first time by his uncle Teddy and...
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    novel, Fitzgerald used as his literary templates H. G. Wells' 1909 work Tono-Bungay and Sir Compton Mackenzie's 1913 novel Sinister Street, which chronicled...
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    as such." H. G. Wells wrote in his 1909 semi-autobiographical novel Tono-Bungay, "Three energetic young men of the hooligan type, in neck-wraps and caps...
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    Grundy say?" in Verse 1. H. G. Wells's character Ewart in the novel Tono-Bungay, during a long dialogue about the Grundys says, "There's no Mrs Grundy...
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  • polonium, radium, ythorium, thorium, carium, and new things, too." (Tono-Bungay (1909), H. G. Wells) Placename: Hon Quap (Cat's Tooth Mountain) southwest...
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  • filthy lucre?", one of the assembled captains murmurs "Non olet". In Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells, the narrator, Ponderevo uses the phrase to justify joining...
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  • David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay Colin Wilson, The Personality Surgeon Robert Anton Wilson and Robert...
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    (patent) Quackery Revalenta arabica, 18th century nostrum Snake oil Tono-Bungay Universal panacea "Patent medicine". Medicine patent medicine. merriam-webster...
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  • Utopia (1905) In the Days of the Comet (1906) The War in the Air (1908) Tono-Bungay (1909) Ann Veronica (1909) The History of Mr Polly (1910) The Sleeper...
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    terror." Beatrice Webb annoyed Wells by preferring The War in the Air to Tono-Bungay, which Wells regarded as his masterpiece. The War in the Air is part...
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  • quiet Epilogue, inspired by the last chapter of H. G. Wells's novel Tono-Bungay: The last great movement in the London Symphony in which the true scheme...
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    Utopia (1905) In the Days of the Comet (1906) The War in the Air (1908) Tono-Bungay (1909) Ann Veronica (1909) The History of Mr Polly (1910) The Sleeper...
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  • London Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Horace W C Newte Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells Three Lives by Gertrude Stein (US, France) Poetry Exultations...
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    work based on the German legend of Faust. H. G. Wells alludes to it in Tono-Bungay (1909). The Spanish musician Luis Delgado has published an album called...
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  • in literature – Hermann Sudermann's The Song of Songs; H. G. Wells' Tono-Bungay. Death of John Millington Synge, Algernon Charles Swinburne 1910 in literature...
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    Utopia (1905) In the Days of the Comet (1906) The War in the Air (1908) Tono-Bungay (1909) Ann Veronica (1909) The History of Mr Polly (1910) The Sleeper...
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    Midhurst features as "Wimblehurst" in several of Well's novels, such as Tono-Bungay. Alec Guinness star of stage and screen, died in Edward VII's Hospital...
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  • H. G. Wells: The Time Machine, The Wheels of Chance, Short Stories, Tono-Bungay, The History of Mr Polly Arnold Bennett: The Old Wives' Tale, Lord Raingo...
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    member, referred to the club in one scene of his autobiographical novel Tono-Bungay (1909), in which the narrator George Ponderevo visits the club dining...
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    and while living at Spade House Wells wrote books including Kipps, Tono-Bungay and Ann Veronica. The house has been Grade II* listed on the National...
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  • masterpiece" and argued that with Kipps, The History of Mr Polly, and Tono-Bungay, Wells "is able to claim a permanent place in English fiction, close...
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  • Utopia (1905) In the Days of the Comet (1906) The War in the Air (1908) Tono-Bungay (1909) Ann Veronica (1909) The History of Mr Polly (1910) The Sleeper...
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  • Utopia (1905) In the Days of the Comet (1906) The War in the Air (1908) Tono-Bungay (1909) Ann Veronica (1909) The History of Mr Polly (1910) The Sleeper...
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  • a God Unknown by John Steinbeck To Jerusalem and Back by Saul Bellow Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck A Tourist in Africa by...
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    Utopia (1905) In the Days of the Comet (1906) The War in the Air (1908) Tono-Bungay (1909) Ann Veronica (1909) The History of Mr Polly (1910) The Sleeper...
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