Sybil, or the Two Nations - Disraeli, Benjamin
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Benjamin Disraeli was a British statesman and novelist. He was Prime Minister in 1868 and 1874. He gave the Conservative Party a policy of Tory democracy and imperialism. His travels furnished him with material for the Oriental descriptions he used in later novels and influenced his attitude toward foreign relations with India, Egypt, and Turkey in the 1870s. Disraeli uses the looming events of a country as a backdrop for the romance in this novel. Sybil is truly a good person. Egremont is a reformed aristocrat who loves her. Egremont has a scheming mother. These three provide the basis for a…mehr

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Benjamin Disraeli was a British statesman and novelist. He was Prime Minister in 1868 and 1874. He gave the Conservative Party a policy of Tory democracy and imperialism. His travels furnished him with material for the Oriental descriptions he used in later novels and influenced his attitude toward foreign relations with India, Egypt, and Turkey in the 1870s. Disraeli uses the looming events of a country as a backdrop for the romance in this novel. Sybil is truly a good person. Egremont is a reformed aristocrat who loves her. Egremont has a scheming mother. These three provide the basis for a classic forbidden love story. Parliament, country houses, industrial towns and lower class regions intermingle in this novel. 19th century Britain is shown through Disraeli's diversified characters. to be a land in great flux.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) was a British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is the only British Prime Minister of Jewish birth.