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Sybil, or the Two Nations

by Benjamin Disraeli

Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil traces the plight of the working classes of England. Disraeli was interested in dealing with the horrific conditions in which the majority of England's working classes lived — or, what is generally called the Condition of England question. The book is a roman à thèse, or a novel with a thesis — which was meant to create a furor over the squalor that was plaguing England's working class cities.

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English

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1845

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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield was a British statesman and Conservative politician, who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of t...

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