The complete online text of Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells.

The English author Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) began his career as a novelist with a popular sequence of science fiction that remains the most familiar part of his work. He later wrote realistic novels and novels of ideas. On Sept. 21, 1866, H. G. W...

Herbert George Wells was one of the most prolific and most popular writers of short fiction of his era and of the twentieth century. Some of his longer fictions, such as The Time Machine: An Invention (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898), have formed...

H. G. Wells's earlier works of science fiction have retained their popularity for nearly a century. In recent years they have also won academic regard for integrating the fantastic with the realistic to produce challenging alien perspectives. The influen...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Tono-Bungay: Book The Second The Rise Of Tono-Bungay Chapter 1 How I Became A London Student And Went Astray When I was twenty-two I came to live in London. Every day, more and more impressions of the city were added to...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Tono-Bungay: Book The First The Days Before Tono-Bungay Was Invented Chapter I Of Bladesover House, And My Mother; And The Constitution Of Society The course of most people's lives seems to follow a pattern of beginning, middle, and end, and they...