Sybil: Or the Two Nations (English Library)

by Benjamin Disraeli (Author), Benjamin Disraeli (Author), R. Butler (Author), Thom Braun (Author)

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  1980

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  So vivid was its exposure of the horrifying inequalities of Victorian society--from the desperate poverty of the industrial workers to the gross and irresponsible excesses of the wealthy--that is subtitle The Two Nations has passed intothe language.But Disraeli, the man who was to become one of Britian's most famous prime ministers, did not produce in Sybil merely a political tract on behalf of Tory democracy as the answer to the Hungry Forties. This is a dramatic novel of romance, full of wit and irony; a love story which ranges through adventure, mystery and political intrigue while questioning many of the basic assumptions of the Victorian social structure.