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The New Machiavelli was written in the years 1908–9 but not published until January 1911. Wells intended it to be ‘a sort of companion piece to Tono-Bungay, as large and outspoken, but this time it is a picture of political life’.22 The comparison with Tono-Bungay clearly demonstrates that in planning The New Machiavelli Wells envisaged an ambitious novel which would offer a commentary upon political life in Edwardian England.
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© 1979 J. R. Hammond
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Hammond, J.R. (1979). The New Machiavelli. In: An H. G. Wells Companion. Literary Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04146-6_34
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