DISRAELI, Benjamin.

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The Works. First Bradenham edition. This collection of Disraeli's fiction is introduced by Philip Guedalla (1889–1944), the barrister, author, and aspiring politician. At his death in active service, he was eulogized as "one of the finest prose stylists of our day, and it is questionable whether any Anglo-Jewish writer ever surpassed him in this respect" (Roth, p. 195).Disraeli "was to attempt an ambitious variety of literary forms before he settled on the novel... a combination of fascination and amused contempt for high society, both social and political, a clever vein of irony, shrewd observation of personal and political manoeuvre, an apparently genuine sympathy for poverty and oppression, and a brisk readability characterized his novels" (The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature).

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