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The New Machiavelli

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A politician’s account of ambition and an illicit relationship exposes the tension between public reform, private desire, and social respectability.

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The New Machiavelli

Richard Remington looks back on the family, education, marriage, and political alliances that shaped his career. His attempts to imagine a more rational public life collide with class interests and his relationship with Isabel. Written as a retrospective confession, Wells’s English novel connects the machinery of parliamentary politics with the difficult management of private feeling.

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H. G. Wells died in 1946. This edition uses the English original, first published in 1911, transcribed by Project Gutenberg; later introductions, notes, images and publishing matter are excluded.

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The New Machiavelli

H. G. Wells

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BOOK THE FIRST: THE MAKING OF A MAN

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CHAPTER THE FIRST — CONCERNING A BOOK THAT WAS NEVER WRITTEN

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02BOOK THE FIRST: THE MAKING OF A MAN
  3. 03CHAPTER THE FIRST — CONCERNING A BOOK THAT WAS NEVER WRITTEN
  4. 04Section 1
  5. 05Section 2
  6. 06Section 3
  7. 07CHAPTER THE SECOND — BROMSTEAD AND MY FATHER
  8. 08Section 1
  9. 09Section 2
  10. 10Section 3
  11. 11Section 4
  12. 12Section 5
  13. 13Section 6
  14. 14CHAPTER THE THIRD — SCHOLASTIC
  15. 15Section 1
  16. 16Section 2
  17. 17Section 3
  18. 18Section 4
  19. 19Section 5
  20. 20Section 6
  21. 21Section 7
  22. 22Section 8
  23. 23CHAPTER THE FOURTH — ADOLESCENCE
  24. 24Section 1
  25. 25Section 2
  26. 26Section 3
  27. 27Section 4
  28. 28Section 5
  29. 29Section 6
  30. 30Section 7
  31. 31Section 8
  32. 32Section 9
  33. 33Section 10
  34. 34Section 11
  35. 35Section 12
  36. 36Section 13
  37. 37BOOK THE SECOND: MARGARET
  38. 38CHAPTER THE FIRST — MARGARET IN STAFFORDSHIRE
  39. 39Section 1
  40. 40Section 2
  41. 41Section 3
  42. 42Section 4
  43. 43Section 5
  44. 44Section 6
  45. 45Section 7
  46. 46CHAPTER THE SECOND — MARGARET IN LONDON
  47. 47Section 1
  48. 48Section 2
  49. 49Section 3
  50. 50Section 4
  51. 51Section 5
  52. 52Section 6
  53. 53Section 7
  54. 54Section 8
  55. 55Section 9
  56. 56CHAPTER THE THIRD — MARGARET IN VENICE
  57. 57Section 1
  58. 58Section 2
  59. 59CHAPTER THE FOURTH — THE HOUSE IN WESTMINSTER
  60. 60Section 1
  61. 61Section 2
  62. 62Section 3
  63. 63Section 4
  64. 64Section 5
  65. 65Section 6
  66. 66BOOK THE THIRD: THE HEART OF POLITICS
  67. 67CHAPTER THE FIRST — THE RIDDLE FOR THE STATESMAN
  68. 68Section 1
  69. 69Section 2
  70. 70Section 3
  71. 71Section 4
  72. 72Section 5
  73. 73Section 6
  74. 74Section 7
  75. 75Section 8
  76. 76Section 9
  77. 77CHAPTER THE SECOND — SEEKING ASSOCIATES
  78. 78Section 1
  79. 79Section 2
  80. 80Section 3
  81. 81Section 4
  82. 82Section 5
  83. 83Section 6
  84. 84Section 7
  85. 85Section 8
  86. 86Section 9
  87. 87Section 10
  88. 88CHAPTER THE THIRD — SECESSION
  89. 89Section 1
  90. 90Section 2
  91. 91Section 3
  92. 92Section 4
  93. 93Section 5
  94. 94CHAPTER THE FOURTH — THE BESETTING OF SEX
  95. 95Section 1
  96. 96Section 2
  97. 97Section 3
  98. 98Section 4
  99. 99Section 5
  100. 100Section 6
  101. 101BOOK THE FOURTH: ISABEL
  102. 102CHAPTER THE FIRST — LOVE AND SUCCESS
  103. 103Section 1
  104. 104Section 2
  105. 105Section 3
  106. 106Section 4
  107. 107Section 5
  108. 108Section 6
  109. 109Section 7
  110. 110Section 8
  111. 111CHAPTER THE SECOND — THE IMPOSSIBLE POSITION
  112. 112Section 1
  113. 113Section 2
  114. 114Section 3
  115. 115Section 4
  116. 116Section 5
  117. 117Section 6
  118. 118CHAPTER THE THIRD — THE BREAKING POINT
  119. 119Section 1
  120. 120Section 2
  121. 121Section 3
  122. 122Section 4
  123. 123Section 5
  124. 124Section 6

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