Sybil

by Benjamin Disraeli

Overview

Benjamin Disraeli (* 21. Dezember 1804 in London; † 19. April 1881 in Mayfair), 1. Earl of Beaconsfield seit 1876, war ein konservativer britischer Staatsmann und erfolgreicher Romanschriftsteller. Zwei Mal, 1868 und 1874 bis 1880 bekleidete er das Amt des britischen Premierministers. “Sybil” ist ein Roman von Benjamin Disraeli aus dem Jahr 1845. Er beschreibt das Schicksal der englischen Arbeiterklasse und deren zum Teil menschenunwürdigen Lebensumstände.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783958644915
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	01/31/2016
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	467
Lexile:	1150L (what's this?)
File size:	880 KB

About the Author

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), was a British politician of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is the only British prime minister to have been of Jewish birth. He was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister. (Wikipedia)

Editorial Reviews

Disraeli, like his later peer Churchill, made his reputation as a writer before entering Parliament. His political fame easily eclipsed his novelistic reputation, and this audiobook gives us a fair understanding of why. Many of its secondary characters are so similar that even narrator Tim Bentinck's many tones and accents cannot help listeners distinguish them, and no one could do much with the digressions into British constitutional history. The major characters, despite Bentinck's efforts, are pretty monochromatic, the heroes unnaturally good and the villains totally bad. And while the lectures on Chartism and the obligations of the wealthy toward the poor may have been fascinating when the book was new (1845), they have lost their immediacy. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

OCTOBER 2019 - AudioFile

Disraeli, like his later peer Churchill, made his reputation as a writer before entering Parliament. His political fame easily eclipsed his novelistic reputation, and this audiobook gives us a fair understanding of why. Many of its secondary characters are so similar that even narrator Tim Bentinck's many tones and accents cannot help listeners distinguish them, and no one could do much with the digressions into British constitutional history. The major characters, despite Bentinck's efforts, are pretty monochromatic, the heroes unnaturally good and the villains totally bad. And while the lectures on Chartism and the obligations of the wealthy toward the poor may have been fascinating when the book was new (1845), they have lost their immediacy. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

OCTOBER 2019 - AudioFile