The new machiavelli

The New Machiavelli is a 1911 novel by H. G. Wells that was serialised in The English Review in 1910. Because its plot notoriously derived from Wells’s affair with Amber Reeves and satirised Beatrice and Sidney Webb, it was «the literary scandal of its day». The New Machiavelli purports to be written in the first person by its protagonist, Richard «Dick» Remington, who has a lifelong passion for «statecraft» and who dreams of recasting the social and political form of the English nation. Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.