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27/1/03: H.G. Wells' Tono Bungay.(Literature)(Critical Essay)

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From: Quadrant
Date: 20040901
Author:Gould, Alan

THE NOVEL takes a pre-consumerist England and anatomises the onset and progress of consumerism in a way that is acute. The entire world that advertising creates is carefully pinned back like an anatomist's specimen, revealed, its further developments foreshadowed.

In this, in Kipps, The History of Mister Polly, Ann Veronica, HGW is a most acute observer of the intricacies, the pathology, of the English class system and the profound unsettling of the modern world's commerce upon it.

But that said, I note HGW's novels invariably proceed well for the first 100 pages or so ...

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