DISRAELI, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield.

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The Works. The Crown Edition, number 85 of 999 sets, in the original bindings displaying an unusual variety of design for a library set.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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