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Benjamin Disraeli Letters - 1815-1834, Volume I (Paperback)
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Benjamin Disraeli Letters - 1815-1834, Volume I (Paperback)
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The private letters of a statesman are always inviting material for
historians and when he has claim to literary fame as well the
correspondence assumes a double significance. Benjamin Disraeli
(1804-1881) belonged to an age that gave pride of place to the
written word as an instrument of both business and pleasure. This
volume includes 363 letters (many previously unpublished) from his
school boy days to his establishment in the Tory camp under the
patronage of Lord Lyndhurst. Most prominent are Disraeli's letters
to his sister, Sarah, with whom he corresponded frequently over
several decades. To her he confided his hopes, interspersed with
his observations and descriptions of social, literary and political
events. The letters to Sarah supply a skeleton around which
Disraeli's young manhood can be reconstructed and shed valuable
light on the remaining documents in the volume. The correspondence
also includes accounts of his tour of the Low Countries and the
Rhine in 1824, his adventurous trip to Spain, Greece, the Near East
and Egypt in 1830, his tense negotiations with publishers and his
campaign to shine as a member of aristocratic society and win
political patronage. The letters demonstrate the fine eye for
detail and the capacity for self-dramatization and literary
conceits which mark his novels. With their annotations they also
provide a remarkably detailed account of life in the upper reaches
of English society as viewed from below, and of Disraeli's
ambitions to enter that life.
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