W H Mallock

William Hurrell Mallock (1849–1923) was an English novelist, social critic, and economist known for his satirical novel The New Republic (1877), which critiqued contemporary intellectuals and ideologies.[1][2] Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize in 1872, he later wrote philosophical works like Is Life Worth Living? (1879) and polemics against socialism and secularism, including Social Equality (1882) and A Critical Examination of Socialism (1908).[2][3]