Coningsby: or, The New Generation

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Thomas Lawrence, John Constable and Henry Raeburn. A young aristocrat comes of age as the old Tory party dies and asks what a party is for. Disraeli wrote it in 1844 as a manifesto for Young England and put half the cabinet into it under other ...

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) was a British statesman and novelist born in London, twice prime minister and the only one to have published fiction. He wrote novels before, during and after his political career, and was made Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876. His works include Vivian Grey, Coningsby, S...