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Coningsby

Coningsby

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1986606864
ISBN13: 9781986606868
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 15 2018
Pages: 466
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
This is one of Disreali's best novels, not as a story, but as a study of men, manners, and principles. The plot is slight - little better than a device for stringing together sketches of character and statements of political and economic opinions; but these are always interesting and often brilliant. The motive which underlies the book is political. It is, in brief, an attempt to show that the political salvation of England was to be sought in its aristocracy, but that this aristocracy was morally weak and socially ineffective, and that it must mend its ways before its duty to the state could be fulfilled. Interest in this aspect of the book has, of course, to a large extent passed away with the political conditions which it reflected. As a picture of aristocratic life in England in the first part of the nineteenth century it has, however, enduring significance and charm.

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