- ^ David C. Smith, H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986), p. 174.
- ^ H. G. Wells, footnote in the instalment of "Tono-Bungay" in The Popular Magazine, December 1908.
- ^ H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Book II, Ch. 2, §2 (New York: Modern Library, n.d. [1937]), p. 154.
- ^ H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Book I, Ch. 2 (New York: Modern Library, n.d. [1937]), pp. 45–55.
- ^ H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Book II, Ch. 3, §2 (New York: Modern Library, n.d. [1937]), p. 181.
- ^ H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Book II, Ch. 1, §3 (New York: Modern Library, n.d. [1937]), pp. 130–31.
- ^ H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Book II, Ch. 3, §2 (New York: Modern Library, n.d. [1937]), p. 181.
- ^ H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Book II, Ch. 4, §10 (New York: Modern Library, n.d. [1937]), pp. 233–34.
- ^ H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Book IV, Ch. 3, §1 (New York: Modern Library, n.d. [1937]), p. 450.
- ^ H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Book II, Ch. 1, §1 (New York: Modern Library, n.d. [1937]), pp. 114, 112.
- ^ H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, (New York: Macmillan, 1934), pp. 32-34
- ^ H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Book III, Ch. 2, §9 (New York: Modern Library, n.d. [1937]), p. 309.
- ^ David C. Smith, H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986), p. 202.
- ^ H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Book IV, Ch. 3, §3 (New York: Modern Library, n.d. [1937]), p. 458. The narrator himself calls attention to "the symbol of my destroyer" and comments: "Sometimes I call this reality Science, sometimes I call it Truth. But it is something we draw by pain and effort out of the heart of life, that we disentangle and make clear. Other men serve it, I know in art, in literature, in social invention, and see it in a thousand different figures, under a hundred names. I see it always as austerity, as beauty. This thing we make clear is the heart of life. It is the one enduring thing. Men and nations, epochs and civilisation pass, each making its contribution. I do not know what it is, this something, except that it is supreme". Northrop Frye commented on this symbol in his Anatomy of Criticism (Princeton University Press, 1971 [orig. 1957], p. 155), and David C. Smith called the conclusion of Tono-Bungay "one of the finer endings in all English fiction" (H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal, p. 202).
- ^ David C. Smith, H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986), pp. 203–04.
- ^ Vincent Brome, H. G. Wells: A Biography (London, New York, and Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1951), p. 107.
- ^ David C. Smith, H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986), p. 203.
- ^ David C. Smith, H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986), p. 200.
- ^ Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) (16 November 2016). Prejudices, First Series.
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