# The Prince

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- Book: [The Prince](https://www.bookquiver.com/niccolo-machiavelli/the-prince) ([The Prince.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/niccolo-machiavelli/the-prince.md))
- Authors: [Niccolò Machiavelli](https://www.bookquiver.com/niccolo-machiavelli)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-915-0
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2003-02-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional...