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1) Tono-Bungay
Author
Series
Riverside editions volume B101
Pub. Date
1966
Physical Desc
xxviii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A chemist's life is transformed by the wonders of selling snake oil in this satire of early–twentieth century capitalism by the author of The Time Machine.
As a young assistant chemist, George Ponderevo rode his uncle's coattails to a great fortune. His uncle Edward's meteoric rise was all thanks to a miraculous patent medicine, Tono-Bungay-which George knew to be nothing more than sugar water. Though it provided none of its promised curative...
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