The New Machiavelli

by H. G. Wells, Michael Foot (Introduction), Simon James (Editor), John Partington (Noted by)

Overview

A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his life is thrown, when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire. At first, he struggles to resist and remain focused upon his familiar political, personal and social life. But as he soon learns, it is harder than he could have imagined to turn his back on love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141439990
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/26/2006
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	5.04(w) x 7.74(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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