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Coningsby

First published: 1844
Pages: 468

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Bk. 1, chaps. 3-5
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The first of Disraeli's political novels follows Harry Coningsby, orphaned grandson of a rich and domineering marquess, as he comes of age in the unsettled England that followed the 1832 Reform Bill. At Eton he befriends Oswald Millbank, son of a self-made manufacturer his grandfather despises, and the friendship pulls him between the old aristocracy and the rising industrial class. Guided by the enigmatic financier Sidonia, Coningsby gropes toward a new kind of Toryism built on principle rather than mere party. Disraeli poured his own Young England politics into the book, and it made his reputation as a novelist. Published in 1844, it opened the trilogy continued in Sybil and Tancred. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) was a British statesman who twice served as Prime Minister, and also a successful novelist. His fiction blended romance, politics, and sharp social observation.