Book description
A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife,
Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his
superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage
or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray
into which his life is thrown, when he meets the young and beautiful
Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire. At first, he struggles to
resist and remain focused upon his familiar political, personal and
social life. But as he soon learns, it is harder than he could have
imagined to turn his back on love.
H. G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist, who published
more than a hundred books, including novels, histories, essays and
programmes for world regeneration. Wells's prophetic imagination was
first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction, but later he
became an apostle of socialism, science and progress. His
controversial views on sexual equality and the shape of a truly
developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was,
in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.
Michael Foot is a former Leader of the Labour Party. He has written
many books, including works on H. G. Wells, Aneurin Bevan and Jonathan Swift.
Simon J. James is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University
of Durham. He has written on, and edited works by, George Gissing, H.
G. Wells and Charles Dickens.
John Partington is the author of many books and essays on H. G.
Wells' political thought and science fiction, including Building
Cosmopolis. He is the editor of The Wellsian, the annual journal of
the H. G. Wells Society.
