Coningsby or The New Generation [FIRST EDITION] [VINTAGE 1902]

Disraeli, Benjamin

Edité par The Century Co., New York, 1902

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Near fine condition olive brown ribbed boards with a rectangular leather spine label with gilt lettering. Includes Publisher's Note; List of Illustrations; Dedication dated May 1844; Preface by Disraeli dated May 1894; Also includes gilt upper page edges. Illustrated with a frontispiece plate and additional plate drawings by C.D. Williams.The spine is extremely tight and square and all pages in fine condition. (see photographs) ".the best of his novels, not as a story, but as a study of men, manners, and principles. Coningsby was the first of a trilogy of novels (together with Sybil and Tancred) which marked a departure from Disraeli's silver-fork novels of the 1830's and which are his most famous. The book is set against a background of the real political events of the 1830's in England that followed the enactment of the Reform Bill of 1832. In describing these events Disraeli sets out his own beliefs including his opposition to Robert Peel, his dislikes of both the British Whig Party and the ideals of Utilitarianism, and the need for social justice in a newly industrialized society.Disraeli articulates a "Tory interpretation" of history to combat the "accepted [Whig] orthodoxy of the day". In this interpretation the Whigs have emasculated three great institutions (the monarchy, the church and "the people") so as to rule in their own interest." - from Wikipedia.

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• Titre: Coningsby or The New Generation [FIRST EDITION] [VINTAGE 1902]
• Éditeur: The Century Co., New York
• Date de parution: 1902
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine