Tono-Bungay (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: H. G. Wells
- First Published: 1909
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Setting: England, West Africa, and Bordeaux
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, France or French people, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Bankruptcy or financial crisis, Corruption, Servants, Ambition, Entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs, Wealth, Inventions or inventors
- Locales: Africa, London, England, Bordeaux, France
Characters Discussed
George Ponderevo, an enterprising young scientist and the narrator. The son of the housekeeper at Bladesover House, a large country estate, he learns about class barriers at an early age. When he is twelve years old, he falls desperately in love with a pampered young aristocrat, the Honorable Beatrice Normandy, who is eight. Two years later, he is banished when he fights with her snobbish half brother, Archie Garvell, and Beatrice, turning against her admirer, blames him for attacking Archie. After an unhappy experience in the household of one uncle, he is...
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