{"product_id":"benjamin-disraeli-letters-9781487592721","title":"Benjamin Disraeli Letters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe private letters of a statesman are always inviting material for historians and when he has claim to literary fame as well the correspondence assumes a double significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) belonged to an age that gave pride of place to the written word as an instrument of both business and pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume includes 363 letters (many previously unpublished) from his school boy days to his establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst. Most prominent are Disraeli's letters to his sister, Sarah, with whom he corresponded frequently over several decades. To her he confided his hopes, interspersed with his observations and descriptions of social, literary and political events. The letters to Sarah supply a skeleton around which Disraeli's young manhood can be reconstructed and shed valuable light on the remaining documents in the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence also includes accounts of his tour of the Low Countries and the Rhine\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409175519575,"sku":"9781487592721","price":51.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487592721.jpg?v=1730505763","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/benjamin-disraeli-letters-9781487592721","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}