Disraeli in Love by Maurice Edelman (1972-07-06) [Hardcover]

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A glance across the opera-boxes at
the King's Theatre in 1833 might
have changed England's history. For
with that glance, the fashionable
young novelist and would-be
Member of Parliament, Benjamin
Disracli, fell in love with Henrietta,
wife of Sir Francis Sykes, and
embarked on a romance that nearly
destroyed him.
Against the turbulent background
of England in the 183os, with its
duels and gambling hells and
sponging houses and Grub Street
bullies, Maurice Edelman with a
novelist's empathy recreates a
Disracli far different from the
stereotype of the grave courtier and
statesman presenting the Queen with
India and the Suez Canal shares.
This is Disraeli, armed with his
genius and fighting in the service of
his ambition not only against his
political and social enemies, but also
against the lulling temptations of a
sensuous and beautiful woman.