The New Machiavelli

by H. G. Wells

Overview

"The New Machiavelli" was written by H.G. Wells and published in serialised form in The English Review in 1910, published as a novel in 1911. Its lead character, Richard "Dick" Remington, has a lifelong passion for "statecraft" and dreams of reforming the social and political systems of England. His political career is wrecked by a scandalous affair, he is forced to abandon his political aspirations and life he knows to escape to Italy, where he writes his apologies and reflections, which is this novel. Enjoy reading from the source of his political theories and lessons about the heart of politics he should have heeded, in Machiavelli's "The Prince." 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788834165423
Publisher:	E-BOOKARAMA
Publication date:	05/07/2024
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	929,073
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

H.G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist, who published more than a hundred books, including novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. Wells's prophetic imagination was first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction, but later he became an apostle of socialism, science and progress. His controversial views on sexual equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.

Michael Foot is a former Leader of the Labour Party. He has written many books, including works on H.G. Wells, Aneurin Bevan and Jonathan Swift.

Simon J. James is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Durham. He has written on, and edited works by, George Gissing, H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens.

John Partington is the author of many books and essays on H.G. Wells' political thought and science fiction, including Building Cosmopolis. He is the editor of The Wellsian, the annual journal of the H.G. Wells Society.

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1866

Date of Death:

August 13, 1946

Place of Birth:

Bromley, Kent, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Normal School of Science, London, England

Table of Contents

Book 1	The Making of a Man
1	Concerning a Book That Was Never Written	3
2	Bromstead and my Father	13
3	Scholastic	47
4	Adolescence	91
Book 2	Margaret
1	Margaret in Staffordshire	157
2	Margaret in London	193
3	Margaret in Venice	235
4	The House in Westminster	243
Book 3	The Heart of Politics
1	The Riddle for the Statesman	281
2	Seeking Associates	325
3	Secession	369
4	The Besetting of Sex	387