THE political career of Lord George Bentinck was peculiar. He had, to use his own expression, 'sate in eight Parliaments without having taken part in any great debate, ' when remarkable events suddenly impelled him to advance and occupy not only a considerable but a leading position in our public affairs. During three years, under circumstances of great difficulty, he displayed some of the highest qualities of political life: courage and a lofty spirit; a mastery of details which experience usually alone confers; a quick apprehension and a clear intelligence; indomitable firmness; promptness,...
THE political career of Lord George Bentinck was peculiar. He had, to use his own expression, 'sate in eight Parliaments without having taken part in ...
Isaac D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature was published in 1841, when the author was seventy-five years old. The title was adopted to connect it with two preceding volumes, Curiosities of Literature and Miscellanies of Literature. As the author writes in the preface, this book was intended to form a portion of a much larger work that was never completed. "A history of our vernacular literature has occupied my studies for many years. It was my design, not to furnish an arid narrative of books or of authors, but following the steps of the human mind through the wide...
Isaac D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature was published in 1841, when the author was seventy-five years old. The title was adopted to connec...
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 which the majority of England's working classes lived - or, what is generally called the Condition of England question.
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 i...
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the ...
Home Letters by Benjamin Disraeli. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1885 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Home Letters by Benjamin Disraeli. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1885 and may have some imperfections such as marks or...
Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the plight of the working classes sharply to the attention of the reading public. The "two nations" of the alternative title are the rich and poor, so disparate in their opportunities and living conditions, and so hostile to each other, that they seem almost to belong to different countries. The gulf between them is given a poignant focus by the central romantic...
Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's pu...
Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Sybil traces the plight of the working classes of England. As the title suggests, Disraeli is interested in dealing with the horrific conditions in which the majority of England's working classes lived. It is a novel with a thesis, which was meant to create a propagandistic furor over the squalor that was plaguing England's working class cities
Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Sybil traces the plight of the working classes of England. As the title suggests, Dis...
Is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year asFriedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil traces the plight of theworking classes of England. Disraeli was interested in dealing with the horrific conditions in which the majority of England's working classes lived - or, what is generally called the Condition of England question. Disraeli's novel was made into a silent film called Sybil in 1921, starring Evelyn Brent and Cowley Wright. Disraeli's interest in this subject stemmed from his interest in the Chartist movement, a working-class...
Is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year asFriedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil tr...
