胡適讀The New Machiavelli By Herbert George Wells 1915.9.7
Wells 待徐志摩等人很友善。
青年胡適讀Wells的英國圈的政治小說，可以找出其英文文法有問題，真是的。
Herbert George Wells[3][4] (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. 今年49歲，為當代文學巨子之一。著書甚豐；所著 富於理想，不獨以文勝也。
The New Machiavelli 為政治小說，讀之增益吾之英倫政界之知識不少。
書中頗多名言，擷其一二：
The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells
1915.9.7
With his wife Jane's consent, Wells had affairs with a number of women, including the American birth control activist Margaret Sanger, adventurer and writer Odette Keun, Soviet spy Moura Budberg and novelist Elizabeth von Arnim.[36] In 1909, he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves,[37] whose parents, William and Maud Pember Reeves, he had met through the Fabian Society; and in 1914, a son, Anthony West (1914–1987), by the novelist and feminist Rebecca West, 26 years his junior.[38] After Beatrice Webb voiced disapproval of Wells' "sordid intrigue" with the daughter of veteran Fabian Sydney Olivier, he responded by lampooning Beatrice Webb and her husband Sidney Webb in his 1911 novel The New Machiavelli as 'Altiora and Oscar Bailey', a pair of short-sighted, bourgeois manipulators. In Experiment in Autobiography (1934), Wells wrote: "I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply".[39] David Lodge's novel A Man of Parts (2011)—a 'narrative based on factual sources' (author's note)—gives a convincing and generally sympathetic account of Wells's relations with the women mentioned above, and others.[40] Director Simon Wells (born 1961), the author's great-grandson, was a consultant on the future scenes in Back to the Future Part II (1989).[41]
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