The New Machiavelli: H.G. Wells

[poliphilo]

This is the book that turned me on to Wells- only for some reason I didn't follow up for 40 years. It's as good as I remember- an impassioned novel about politics and love- and the relative values thereof. Wells is one of those rare novelists (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Rand, Murdoch) who write not only about ideas but about people for whom ideas matter.

Comments

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

Have you tried David Lodge's A Man of Parts yet? I couldn't finish it, because it was Lodge, after all, but I'd be interested to hear what you think of his take on Wells.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I haven't, but perhaps I should. I feel I know Wells quite well by now- and like him; he was a decent sort of a cove, I think.