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The New Machiavelli

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
12 hours 56 minutes
ISBN
9781802564921
Published
7 April 2025
Imprint
Fantastica
  • political ambition
  • idealism
  • disillusionment
  • power dynamics
  • moral compromise
  • social reform
  • individualism
  • leadership
  • personal conflict
  • societal change

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Description

Richard Remington wants to remake politics and still keep a private life worth living. Ambition, love, and public principle pull him apart as Wells tracks a reformer’s rise and the compromises that hollow it. Spoken as a personal and political education in how progress can cost the self that wanted it.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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