Tono-Bungay
by H. G. Wells
549 pages~9 hrs
“Selling the dream, one bottle of nonsense at a time.”
Experience the biting wit of H. G. Wells in this satirical masterpiece about the rise of a commercial empire built on nothing but clever marketing and a useless tonic. As a young man helps his uncle sell a fraudulent miracle cure to all of England, he discovers that in the modern world, perception is far more profitable than reality.
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