William Hurrell Mallock

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William Hurrell Mallock


Born
in Cheriton Bishop, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
February 07, 1849

Died
April 02, 1923


William Hurrell Mallock was an English novelist and economics writer.

Average rating: 3.82 · 140 ratings · 17 reviews · 254 distinct works
Is Life Worth Living?

3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1880 — 140 editions
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The New Republic: Culture, ...

3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1877 — 73 editions
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Lucretius On Life And Death...

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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1900 — 104 editions
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The New Paul and Virginia P...

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A Critical Examination of S...

3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1907 — 97 editions
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Every Man His Own Poet Or, ...

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The Limits of Pure Democracy

2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1914 — 15 editions
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A human document, a novel. ...

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1892 — 29 editions
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Old Order Changes, Victoria...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1887 — 43 editions
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A human document, a novel V...

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1892 — 13 editions
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“And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight as well as the earth has; only its mists are even more gorgeous and delicate, its aerial perspectives are even more wide and profound. It also transifgures and beautifies things in far more various ways. For the imagination is all senses in one; it is sight, it is smell, it is hearing; it is memory, regret, and passion. Everything goes to nourish it, from first love to literature - literature, which, for cultivated people, is the imagination's gastric juice.”
William Hurrell Mallock, In An Enchanted Island: Or A Winter's Retreat In Cyprus

“Some will be always strong, and some will be always weak; and though, if there is no God, no divine and fatherly source of order, there will be, trust me, no aristocracies, there will still be tyrannies. There will still be rich and poor; and that will then mean happy and miserable; and the poor will be--as I sometimes think they are already--but a mass of groaning machinery, without even the semblance of rationality; and the rich, with only the semblance of it, but a set of gaudy, dancing marionettes, which is the machinery’s one work to keep in motion.”
William Hurrell Mallock, The New Republic: Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an English Country House

“But will you be able to say what is right and what is wrong any longer, if you don’t know for whom anything is right and for whom anything is wrong--whether it is for men with immortal souls, or only with mortal bodies--who are only a little lower than the angels, or only a little better than the pigs? Whilst you can still contrive to doubt upon this matter, whilst the fabric of the old faith is still dissolving only, life still for you, the enlightened few, may preserve what happiness it has now. But when the old fabric is all dissolved, what then? When all divinity shall have gone from love and heroism, and only utility and pleasure shall be left, what then?”
William Hurrell Mallock, The New Republic: Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an English Country House