Herbert George Wells was a prolific writer and he is chiefly remembered for his science fiction but in his social novels he experimented with realism in Edwardian era. He threw light on common people and survival of the people in the modern world.

Tono-Bungay is one of the most important novels of modern times and the novel combines the theme and technique of Well’s earlier work in a vast cohesive narrative of ambition, triumph, dissolution and loss. It is the story of country hectic with a wasting aimless fever of trader, money making, pleasure seeking and a story of activity and urgency and sterility. Tono-Bungay is concerned not only the social change but with the perplexity of the individual, contained and controlled by his social environment.