Benjamin Disraeli

Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil traces the plight of the working classes of England. Disraeli was interested in dealing with the horrific conditions in...

Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil traces the plight of the working classes of England. Disraeli was interested in dealing with the horrific conditions in...

The British statesman, Benjamin Disraeli, who was twice prime minister, also achieved great fame as a novelist. His early 'silver fork' novels, including 'Vivian Grey', featured romanticised depictions of aristocratic life, while his celebrated masterpiece, the 'Young England' trilogy, is charged...

INTRODUCTION The Times advertised Sybil as 'immediately ready* on 8 May 1845, and reviewed it on 13 May. Four days later Disraeli received a letter from a young woman, Mrs. Baylis, who described herself as 'a mechanic's wife' living in Sussex Terrace, a respectable, reasonably prosperous part of...

1831-ben Jeruzsálemben jártam s felkerestem azokat a sírokat, amelyekben a hagyomány szerint Izrael királyai nyugosznak. S akkor felmerült gondolataimban egy csodálatos ember pályafutásának képe, akinek sorsa már gyermekkoromban sokat foglalkoztatott, mert rendkívül gazdag költői...

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