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A chemist's nephew helps sell a worthless tonic and watches it build an empire of shares and unfinished palaces.
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トーノ・バンゲイの概要
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- 128,900語
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- 初版刊行年
- 1909by H・G・ウェルズ
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トーノ・バンゲイ in short
Tono-Bungay follows George Ponderevo from the housekeeper's room of a Kentish mansion to the boardrooms of Edwardian London. A proud boy is thrown out of his small world, helps his uncle build a tonic fortune and marries. The money grows into a mountain of shares and builds a palace that stands half finished.
What トーノ・バンゲイ is about
What happens when a boy of fourteen fights a gentleman's son and refuses to say sorry? In Tono-Bungay, he loses his home, his mother's favour and his place in the only world he understands. That boy is George Ponderevo, and his story is a tale of class, money and love.
H. G. Wells published this novel in 1909. George tells it himself, years later, from a yard beside the Thames where he builds engines and fast ships. At its centre stands his uncle Edward, a small, fidgety chemist who bottles a worthless tonic and sells it so loudly that it turns into a fortune. You get a country house, a bottling room, a glider and a steamy African beach.
対象読者. You will love this book if you enjoy satire with a human heart, stories of self-made fortunes and their collapse, and an engineer's blunt voice telling his tangled life honestly.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A great house teaches everyone their place
George grows up believing that Bladesover House is the whole world in small. His mother is the housekeeper there, and she knows the rank of everyone in the land. The village, the church and the farms all bow to the house.
Below stairs, he learns the order of things by ear. Servants chat about titles and family trees, and copies of the peerage lie about the pantry. Even the vicar, the doctor and the blacksmith have a fixed place on the list. Tea in the housekeeper's room is the worst hour of his day.
A forgotten storeroom of books gives him a different education. He reads Tom Paine, Swift and Gibbon, and doubt takes root. Years later, George decides that Bladesover is the key to England. The country was Bladesover two hundred years ago, and new money lies on top like a coat of paint. The Bladesover system is the lens through which George reads the whole country.
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A boy's pride costs him his home
At fourteen George is in love with the Honourable Beatrice Normandy, a quick little girl who visits Bladesover.
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A restless chemist dreams of something glorious
Uncle Edward Ponderevo keeps a chemist's shop in Wimblehurst.
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London unsettles a student and shapes a marriage
George arrives in London as a scholarship student at South Kensington.
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A nonsense tonic becomes a fortune
After a bitter letter from George, his uncle sends a telegram promising three hundred a year.
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Success swells until it fills a whole hillside
With Tono-Bungay secure, the uncle turns to bigger game.
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Flight draws George back to Beatrice
While his uncle builds, George works in a valley on the problem of flight.
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A desperate raid for quap tests George
Trouble gathers in the business.
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England grows by accident and wastes its energy
Beneath the plot, George argues that England has been overgrown rather than planned.
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George tells it as an engineer, not a novelist
George says plainly that he is no writer.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- George Ponderevo The narrator, a housekeeper's son turned scientist and engineer, who helps his uncle build a fortune while searching for something real to believe in.
- Edward Ponderevo George's restless uncle, a small, talkative chemist who dreams of glory, invents Tono-Bungay and grows into a financier who sees himself as Napoleon.
- Susan Ponderevo The uncle's witty, warm wife, who jokes through every change of fortune and loves both her husband and George.
- Beatrice Normandy A spirited girl George loved as a boy, now a young woman of the gentry who loves him and holds back a secret.
- Marion Ramboat George's first wife, a shy, proper girl from a lodging-house family who wants a respectable home and cannot meet him in conversation.
- Ewart George's old friend from school, a sculptor and talker who sees the absurd in everything and never acts on his opinions.
- Gordon-Nasmyth A sunburnt, secretive adventurer who brings the story of quap, a valuable radioactive mud, to the Ponderevo office.
- Cothope George's loyal assistant in his flying experiments, a practical socialist who keeps the work going when everything else is shaky.
How it ends (spoiler)
The business collapses, and Edward Ponderevo faces arrest for forgery. George flies him across the Channel in the airship Lord Roberts beta, and they land in northern France, where the exhausted uncle dies. Beatrice loves George but refuses to marry him and goes back to Carnaby. Afterward, George settles by the Thames, builds fast destroyers and writes this book.
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『トーノ・バンゲイ』についての質問
What is Tono-Bungay about?
It tells how George Ponderevo helps his uncle sell a worthless tonic and turn it into a fortune of shares and grand houses. It also follows George's love affairs, his flying experiments and his view of English society.
What does the name Tono-Bungay mean?
It is an invented word made up by the uncle for a patent medicine that is mostly flavour and a mild stimulant. Its meaningless, rich sound is the point, since the product sells on advertising and hope.
What is the Bladesover system in Tono-Bungay?
It is George's name for the old English order of great houses, with tenants, servants and villages in fixed ranks. He claims England still follows this pattern, and new money and new classes only grow around it.
Is Tono-Bungay based on a true story?
It is a novel, written by H. G. Wells and published in 1909. The company, the people and the voyages are invented, but the book draws on real features of the time, such as patent medicines, share flotations and country house life.
Is Tono-Bungay worth reading today?
Yes, for readers who like satire. Its comic uncle, its sharp picture of advertising and speculation, and its candid narrator make it lively reading, and its questions about trust and spending still sound familiar.
この版を引用します
Wells, H. G. Tono-Bungay. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/tono-bungay.
Wells, H. G. (2026). Tono-Bungay. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tono-bungay (Original work published 1909)
Wells, H. G. Tono-Bungay. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tono-bungay.
@book{wells2026tonobungay,
author = {Wells, H. G.},
title = {Tono-Bungay},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tono-bungay},
note = {First published 1909}
}
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