A rising British politician's illicit love affair detonates his Parliamentary career, and in exile on the Italian Riviera he writes a bitter memoir of how desire wrecked his ambition to become a modern Machiavelli.
Books mentioned in The New Machiavelli (5)
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli: “It is a matter of many weeks now--diversified indeed by some long drives into the mountains behind us and a memorable sail to Genoa across the blue and purple waters that drowned Shelley--since I began a laboured and futile imitation of "The Prince."”
Companions of Columbus by Washington Irving: “And at home permanently we had Wood's NATURAL HISTORY, a brand-new illustrated Green's HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, Irving's COMPANIONS OF COLUMBUS, a great number of unbound parts of some geographical work, a VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD I think it was called, with pictures of foreign places, and…”
Lives of the Queens of England by Agnes Strickland: “there was Miss Strickland's QUEENS OF ENGLAND, a book I remember with particular animosity, and QUEECHY and the WIDE WIDE WORLD.”
Queechy by Susan Warner: “She had one or two volumes that dated from her own youth, and she tried in vain to interest me in them; there was Miss Strickland's QUEENS OF ENGLAND, a book I remember with particular animosity, and QUEECHY and the WIDE WIDE WORLD.”
The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner: “there was Miss Strickland's QUEENS OF ENGLAND, a book I remember with particular animosity, and QUEECHY and the WIDE WIDE WORLD.”
Books that mention The New Machiavelli (1)
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “two sleepy, shivering boys read to each other from “The New Machiavelli””