Tono-Bungay (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
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
- 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
Places Discussed
Bladesover House. Fictional seventeenth century estate nine miles southeast of London. It is modeled on Up Park, a great house near Peterfield, Kent, where H. G. Wells’s mother was chief housekeeper, that still stands as a government-owned historic landmark. Bladesover House signifies for George, looking back, the “Gentry, the Quality, by and through whom the rest of the world, the farming folk and the laboring folk, the tradespeople, and the upper servants and the servants of the estate, breathed and lived and were permitted.”
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