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A rising Tory statesman in London sacrifices power for love and recounts his life in exile.
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- 1911by Герберт Уэллс
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Новый Макиавелли in short
The New Machiavelli follows one man from a nursery floor of wooden bricks to a seat in the House of Commons. Richard Remington learns to hate muddle in suburbs, schools, and parties alike. He dreams of a trained, orderly state, and behind each stage stands one question, how a private man can serve a great public idea.
What Новый Макиавелли is about
What does a man do when the career he spent his life building is gone for good? Richard Remington sits at a stone table beside a small house among the vines above the Ligurian coast. He is forty-two, an exile, and his seat in Parliament has vanished.
The New Machiavelli was written by H. G. Wells and published in 1911. Remington first tries to copy Niccolo Machiavelli, burns that attempt in a fire of olive twigs, and writes the honest story of his own life. You follow a marriage, a seat in Parliament, and a love that London's rules cannot hold.
Для кого. This is for readers who enjoy a novel of ideas, who like Edwardian London and Westminster, and who want to see big political dreams collide with private love.
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A statesman writes his life from exile
Remington, at forty-two, lives in Italy among vines and stone pines. His first attempts at writing fail because they copy Machiavelli too closely. One night he burns the pages in a small fire of olive twigs, and the next morning he begins again.
He admires Machiavelli for his mixed nature. At San Casciano, Machiavelli spent his days among gossips in a disreputable shop, and in the evening he put on court dress and wrote about princes. Remington sees the same split in himself, a lofty dream of statecraft beside a body full of ordinary appetite.
The modern world differs. No single prince remains to advise, so his book speaks to the constructive passion in any reader. Women have also entered the statesman's study, and love at last ruined a career planned without them.
A life told honestly can teach what a treatise cannot.
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A boy builds whole worlds from bricks
Remington traces his love of states to a bleak, high room at Bromstead.
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Bromstead shows what muddle looks like
Remington describes Bromstead as a model of the modern world.
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School and Cambridge shape a young reformer
Remington wins a scholarship to the City Merchants School, which still teaches Latin and Greek as if nothing had changed.
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Two friends in the Alps plan a better England
At twenty-two Remington takes his first holiday abroad with Willersley, an older friend who sits on the London School Board.
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Margaret seems the answer and becomes the problem
Remington first sees Margaret Seddon in Staffordshire, where his uncle makes pottery.
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The Baileys and Parliament teach hard lessons
Remington finds his first allies in Altiora and Oscar Bailey, tireless publicists who write enormous books on administration.
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A hidden hinterland leads him to the Tories
Remington gives a name to his new idea, the hinterland.
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Sex, children, and Isabel enter statecraft
Remington realizes his plans for schools and research say nothing of how the next generation is born.
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The story is told as a judgment on a self
Wells gives the book the shape of a confession.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Richard Remington The narrator, a clever, restless statesman who wants to build a better state but cannot govern his own desires.
- Margaret Seddon His wife, gentle, cultivated, and devoted, who believes in progress and cannot follow her husband's changing mind.
- Isabel Rivers A brilliant young writer who becomes his colleague and then the great love of his life.
- Altiora Bailey A commanding hostess and planner who runs her husband and her circle and wants to arrange Remington's career.
- Britten Remington's school friend, rough, honest, and loyal, who tells him the truth when polite people will not.
- Willersley A friend from Cambridge days who devotes himself to education and social service and keeps his word.
- Evesham A great Tory leader, eloquent and puzzling, who fascinates Remington as a man of depth and mist.
- Crupp An ambitious Tory and conspirator who draws Remington into the movement of the Blue Weekly.
How it ends (spoiler)
Remington and Isabel leave London together and make a quiet life in Italy, cut off from public office. His career is finished, and he writes this account from a small house among the vines. He mixes personal justification with an account of the constructive ideas behind his work and the larger purposes to which he remains devoted. He ends with Isabel beside him, still hopeful about the state he once hoped to build.
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Вопросы о книге Новый Макиавелли
What is The New Machiavelli about?
It tells the life of Richard Remington, a gifted politician who dreams of building an orderly, educated state. The story follows his boyhood, his marriage, his rise in Parliament, and the love that threatens everything he has built.
Why is the novel called The New Machiavelli?
Remington compares himself to Niccolo Machiavelli, who wrote The Prince after losing his place in politics. He wants a modern version, aimed not at a single prince but at all constructive minds, and that includes the role of love and women.
Is The New Machiavelli based on a true story?
It is a novel, published in 1911, though it draws on real people and politics of the time. Wells knew the Fabian circle, and readers have long linked characters like the Baileys to real figures.
Who are Margaret and Isabel in the book?
Margaret is Remington's wife, a gentle, cultivated woman who shares his early political work. Isabel Rivers is a brilliant younger writer who becomes his intellectual partner and the love that reshapes his life.
What is the main message of The New Machiavelli?
Wells argues that lasting progress comes from education, research, and fine thinking working beneath party politics. He also holds that a state cannot ignore love, women, and family, and that private life shapes public purpose.
Как сослаться на это издание
Wells, H. G. The New Machiavelli. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-new-machiavelli.
Wells, H. G. (2026). The new Machiavelli. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-new-machiavelli (Original work published 1911)
Wells, H. G. The New Machiavelli. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-new-machiavelli.
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note = {First published 1911}
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