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Tono-Bungay
Tono-Bungay
by H.G. Wells
Contents
| BOOK THE FIRST |
| CHAPTER THE FIRST |
| CHAPTER THE SECOND |
CHAPTER THE THIRD |
| BOOK THE SECOND |
| CHAPTER THE FIRST |
| CHAPTER THE SECOND |
| CHAPTER THE THIRD |
CHAPTER THE FOURTH |
| BOOK THE THIRD |
| CHAPTER THE FIRST |
| CHAPTER THE SECOND |
| CHAPTER THE THIRD |
CHAPTER THE FOURTH |
| BOOK THE FOURTH |
| CHAPTER THE FIRST |
| CHAPTER THE SECOND |
| CHAPTER THE THIRD |
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Book the First the Days Before Tono-Bungay Was Invented
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Chapter the First of Bladesover House, and My Mother; and the Constitution of Society
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Book the First the Days Before Tono-Bungay Was Invented
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II · I write that much and look at…
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III · There came a time when I realised…
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IV · I hated teatime in the housekeeper’s room…
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V · It is a little difficult to explain…
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VI · The school I went to was the…
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VII · And then when I had newly passed…
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VIII · Now I sit down to write my…
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IX · The powers of justice in Bladesover made…
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Chapter the Second of My Launch into the World and the Last I Saw of Bladesover
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Chapter the Second of My Launch into the World and the Last I Saw of Bladesover
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II · But I didn’t expect to have the…
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III · I remember something, but not so much…
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IV · I do not remember much of my…
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V · As they talked I gave my attention…
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VI · When I returned, my uncle had in…
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VII · My mother died suddenly and, it was…
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VIII · That is the last I shall tell…
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Chapter the Third the Wimblehurst Apprenticeship
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Chapter the Third the Wimblehurst Apprenticeship
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II · So I remember my uncle in that…
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III · We were torn apart by a financial…
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IV · I was left, I say, as part…
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V · Matriculation kept me for four full days…
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VI · It pleased my uncle extremely to find…
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VII · After I left my uncle that evening…
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Book the Second the Rise of Tono-Bungay
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Chapter the First How I Became a London Student and Went Astray
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Book the Second the Rise of Tono-Bungay
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II · I had come to London as a…
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III · How well I remember the first morning,…
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IV · Ewart, as the embodiment of talk, was…
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V · The affair was immensely serious and commanding…
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VI · Well, you begin to understand my breakdown…
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Chapter the Second the Dawn Comes, and My Uncle Appears in a New Silk Hat
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Chapter the Second the Dawn Comes, and My Uncle Appears in a New Silk Hat
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II · I seem to remember very quick changes…
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III · I didn’t succumb without a struggle to…
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IV · Ewart as a moral influence was unsatisfactory.…
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V · It came to me in the small…
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VI · At last I went to the address…
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Chapter the Third How We Made Tono-Bungay Hum
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Chapter the Third How We Made Tono-Bungay Hum
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II · As I look back at them now,…
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Chapter the Fourth Marion
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Chapter the Fourth Marion
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II · Well, these general explanations will enable the…
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III · The next day I did an unexampled…
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IV · I forget how many days intervened between…
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V · Who can tell the story of the…
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VI · The end of our intolerable situation came…
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VII · I came back after a week’s absence…
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VIII · Then presently we resumed our monstrous, momentous…
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IX · The perplexing thing about life is the…
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X · So I parted from Marion at an…
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XI · But before I finish this chapter and…
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Book the Third the Great Days of Tono-Bungay
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Chapter the First the Hardingham Hotel, and How We Became Big People
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Book the Third the Great Days of Tono-Bungay
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II · It illustrates the romantic element in modern…
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III · When I think of my uncle near…
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IV · I pass the Hardingham ever and again…
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V · All sorts of things came to the…
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VI · There comes back, too, among these Hardingham…
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Chapter the Second Our Progress from Camden Town to Crest Hill
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Chapter the Second Our Progress from Camden Town to Crest Hill
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II · I look into the jumbled stores of…
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III · A few such pictures of those early…
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IV · “What do you think of it, George?” he insisted.
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V · So it was we recognised our new…
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VI · For me, at least, it marked an…
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VII · It seems to me now but a…
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VIII · People say that my uncle lost his…
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IX · My uncle was not altogether swallowed up…
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X · And while I neglected the development of…
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Chapter the Third Soaring
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Chapter the Third Soaring
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II · I had gone far beyond that initial…
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III · “Oh, Crikey!” said my aunt, reading a…
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IV · All my later work in aeronautics is…
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V · But my story has made a jump…
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VI · After that the spirit of our relations…
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VII · But I was only beginning to gauge…
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Chapter the Fourth How I Stole the Heaps of Quap from Mordet Island
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Chapter the Fourth How I Stole the Heaps of Quap from Mordet Island
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II · I had a ridiculous persuasion that I…
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III · That expedition to Mordet Island stands apart…
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IV · All these African memories stand by themselves.…
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V · Sooner or later the ridiculous embargo that…
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VI · A day or so after we had…
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VII · We were none too soon. People had…
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Book the Fourth the Aftermath of Tono-Bungay
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Chapter the First the Stick of the Rocket
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Book the Fourth the Aftermath of Tono-Bungay
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II · My return home to Lady Grove was…
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III · I was roused from such thoughts by…
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IV · That memory of my uncle at the…
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V · The incidents of our flight in Lord…
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VI · But if I find it hard to…
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VII · And now my story converges on what,…
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VIII · It was dark night when I left…
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IX · Last belated figure in that grouping round…
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Chapter the Second Love Among the Wreckage
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Chapter the Second Love Among the Wreckage
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II · Love, like everything else in this immense…
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III · I asked her to marry me once again.
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IV · That should have been the last I…
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Chapter the Third Night and the Open Sea
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Chapter the Third Night and the Open Sea
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II · Concurrently with writing the last chapter of…
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III · This is the note I have tried…
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IV · It was morning and day before I…
Appendices
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Tono-Bungay
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Tono-Bungay
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