Tono-Bungay
H. G. Wells
A worthless patent medicine is turned into a national fortune by advertising alone. The most ambitious of Wells' realist novels and a still accurate account of how commercial bubbles work.
Loading the book...
Keep reading
-
Next in this topic
Ann VeronicaA young woman walks out of her father's house to study biology and live on her own terms. The book was denounced from pulpits and banned from libraries when it appeared.
Verified PDF · Secure download - The History Of Mr. Polly
A miserable shopkeeper decides to burn down his shop and walk away from his life. Wells' funniest novel, and the one that most clearly says what he thought of respectable failure.
Verified PDF · Secure download - The New Machiavelli
A rising politician wrecks his career over an affair and writes the whole thing down from exile. A roman a clef close enough to real people that publishers refused it.
Verified PDF · Secure download - The Passionate Friends: A Novel
A man writes to his son about the woman he loved and could not marry, and about jealousy as a political problem rather than a private one.
Verified PDF · Secure download
Explore more Classic Authors
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Agatha Christie
- Franz Kafka
- Sigmund Freud
- William Shakespeare
- Aristotle
- Plato
- Friedrich Nietzsche