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The New Machiavelli

H. G. Wells

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About a political idealist who changes his colors and engages in a sexual adventure.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .He makes the weird ones mad. But sometimes he cannot go on because of the amusement he extracts."

"I want to shy books at the giggling swine," said Hatherleigh.

"The Pinky Dinky says suddenly while he is making the tea, 'We're all being frightfully funny. It's time for you to say something now.'"

"The Pinky Dinky shakes his head and says: 'I'm afraid I shall never be a responsible being.' And he really IS frivolous."

"Frivolous but not vulgar," said Esmeer.

"Pinky Dinkys are chaps who've had their buds nipped," said Hatherleigh. "They're Plebs and they know it. They haven't the Guts to get hold of things. And so they worry up all those silly little jokes of theirs to carry it off."...

We tried bad ones for a time, viciously flavoured.

Pinky Dinkys are due to over-production of the type that ought to keep outfitters' shops. Pinky Dinkys would like to keep outfitters' shops with whimsy 'scriptions. . . Read More

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I have an ongoing, but ultimately minor, interest in Wells. Being an SF enthusiast he is, of course, important to me as the author of many early SF works. The creation of the Eloi & Morlock characters in "The Time Machine" has provided me w/ archetypes to refer to from time to time. Since he's mainl

I actually enjoyed this as a novel and human story a great deal more than I was expecting - I don't think Wells was doing himself any favours with the title, although the narrator makes it clear in the opening chapter why he has chosen it. The trouble is that the popular consciousness doesn't actual

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D H Lawrance is quoted as saying that this book is “awfully interesting”. I agree that it is interesting in parts but it is also awful In others. Scandalous when published but innocuous to the modern reader this, the most autobiographical of Wells’s books, majors on the themes of politics and sex. T

I was surprised at how moved I was by this. Part 1 and Part 4 has some of Wells' best writing - about marriage, relationships, and education, both sentimental and political. The middle bit gets kind of wooly in a Wellsian way, but even those chapters had the occasional salient nugget, made more sign

This book caused a furore when it first came out, and it is not hard to see why. Although written as a novel it is not really one, as it goes nowhere; which flummoxed critics at the time because it certainly didn't conform to the then acceptable novel format. It is instead a very thinly veiled autob

A long-winded political novel charting a Liberal MP’s rise from the ranks of sexless progressives to a Tory-led aristocratic ruling class with weird notions about eugenics. For those interested in the politics of the period and the slow grinding of progress towards votes for women and a coherent pla

An autobiographical novel, the Bildungsroman as self-defense. Wells defends his politics - rational world state run by a new elite capable of steering human evolution towards happiness - and his new mistress - stupid old Victorians left us no sexual education capable of preparing us for real life. M

H.G. Wells is known best by his Science Fiction—War of the Worlds, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, and other classics—but he also wrote stories that more properly fit in the "Literature" genre. The New Machiavelli seems to fall into this category.

I very much dislike "L

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