Sybil or The Two Nations - Benjamin Disraeli - 1853 Hardback
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.
Disraeli's novel was made into a silent film called Sybil in 1921, starring Evelyn Brent and Cowley Wright.
The novel represents the condition of the working class of Victorian Times through a love story. The story is about a rich man, Charles Egremont, and a poor girl, Sybil coming from two opposite backgrounds. Born in two extremely different environments both fell in love but social issues such as socio-political reforms and dirty politics play their role significantly. The author puts in his best efforts to give an insight into the unforeseen world of class discrimination and how it acts on two lovers.
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