The New Machiavelli

by H. G. Wells

Overview

Shortly after writing this book, Wells abandoned writing science fiction for a series of comic novels and novels of lower-middle-class life. This book represents that transition in his life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512173093
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	05/12/2015
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.27(d)

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