Library / Literature & Fiction
Tono-Bungay
by H. G. Wells
- Pages
- about 484
- Category
- Literature & Fiction
- Language
- English
- Reading time
- 8.9 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
BOOK THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
BOOK THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
BOOK THE FOURTH
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FIRST
OF BLADESOVER HOUSE, AND MY MOTHER; AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIETY
Most people in this world seem to live “in character”; they have a
beginning, a middle and an end, and the three are congruous one with
another and true to the rules of their type. You can speak of them as
being of this sort of people or that. They are, as theatrical people
say, no more (and no less) than “character actors.” They have a class,
they have a place, they know what is becoming in them and what is due
to them, and their proper size of tombstone tells at last how properly
they have played the part. But there is also another kind of life that
is not so much living as a miscellaneous tasting of life. One gets hit
by some unusual transverse force, one is jerked out of one’s stratum
and lives crosswise for the rest of the time, and, as it were, in a
succession of samples. That has been my lot, and that is what has set
me at last writing something in the nature of a novel. I have got an
unusual series of impressions that I want very urgently to tell. I have
seen life at very different levels, and at all these levels I have seen
it with a sort of intimacy and in good faith. I have been a native in
many social countries.
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