DISRAELI, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Novels and Tales. A smartly bound set of the Hughenden Edition, named for Disraeli's home in Buckinghamshire. Disraeli's novels came to have a clear political intent, aiming to shift Victorian public opinion and consequently the nation's politics. As he later wrote, "it was not originally the intention of the writer to adopt the form of fiction as the instrument to scatter his suggestions, but, after reflection, he resolved to avail himself to a method which, in the temper of the times, offered the best chance of influencing opinion" (author's preface to the fifth edition of Coningsby, 1849).The Hughenden edition was first published in 1881.

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