Tono-Bungay
by H. G. Wells
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About This Book
Most people in this world seem to live "in character"; they have a beginning, a middle and an end, and the three are congruous one with another and true to the rules of their type. You can speak of them as being of this sort of people or that. They are, as theatrical people say, no more (and no less) than "character actors." They have a class, they have a place, they know what is becoming in them and what is due to them, and their proper size of tombstone tells at last how properly they have played the part. But there is also another kind of life that is not so much living as a miscellaneous t...
Chapters (115)
- Tono-Bungay
- BOOK THE FIRST THE DAYS BEFORE TONO-BUNGAY WAS INVENTED
- CHAPTER THE FIRST OF BLADESOVER HOUSE, AND MY MOTHER; AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIETY
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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 THIRD THE WIMBLEHURST APPRENTICESHIP
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- BOOK THE SECOND THE RISE OF TONO-BUNGAY
- CHAPTER THE FIRST HOW I BECAME A LONDON STUDENT AND WENT ASTRAY
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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 THIRD HOW WE MADE TONO-BUNGAY HUM
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- CHAPTER THE FOURTH MARION
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- BOOK THE THIRD THE GREAT DAYS OF TONO-BUNGAY
- CHAPTER THE FIRST THE HARDINGHAM HOTEL, AND HOW WE BECAME BIG PEOPLE
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- CHAPTER THE SECOND OUR PROGRESS FROM CAMDEN TOWN TO CREST HILL
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- CHAPTER THE THIRD SOARING
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- CHAPTER THE FOURTH HOW I STOLE THE HEAPS OF QUAP FROM MORDET ISLAND
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- BOOK THE FOURTH THE AFTERMATH OF TONO-BUNGAY
- CHAPTER THE FIRST THE STICK OF THE ROCKET
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- CHAPTER THE SECOND LOVE AMONG THE WRECKAGE
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- CHAPTER THE THIRD NIGHT AND THE OPEN SEA
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