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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
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Some of Disraeli's books have received reprints and attention in the past 50 years, but a few of them seem to only be found on old, old copies. This small book, bearing in a surprising display of broken confidence the actual first name of his real-life lover (Henrietta Sykes, married and promiscuous) of the time, deserves attention. In my opinion, I think it ranks with anything Jane Austen wrote in the same era. The descriptions of young love may have been perhaps a bit too wordy, but with gems sprinkled in. I wish I had written this line, as Captain Armine speaks to Henrietta: "You have touched upon a chord of my heart that has sounded before, though in solitude." As a plot convenience, all major characters end up inheriting great wealth to remove the details of poverty from the conversation. But the book is sympathetic to the common workers, sensitive to religious prejudice (with the main character being Catholic and suffering political isolation as a consequence) and sensitive to the fact that 'commoners' can achieve more and be more deserving of society than Noblemen.