Tono-Bungay

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. Th...