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A political novel about youth, aristocracy, reform, party identity, and the future of Victorian Britain.

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Coningsby

Coningsby is the first novel in Disraeli’s political trilogy, combining coming-of-age fiction with arguments about Tory reform, national leadership, industrial society, and generational change. It is both a Victorian novel and a document of nineteenth-century political imagination.

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Benjamin Disraeli died in 1881, and Coningsby was first published in 1844. These dates support the public-domain basis for the original English text used in this edition.

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Coningsby

Benjamin Disraeli

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CONINGSBY

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By Benjamin Disraeli

Earl Of Beaconsfield

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02CONINGSBY
  3. 03OR THE NEW GENERATION
  4. 04PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
  5. 05TO HENRY HOPE
  6. 06PREFACE
  7. 07D.
  8. 08CONINGSBY
  9. 09BOOK I.
  10. 10CHAPTER I.
  11. 11CHAPTER II.
  12. 12‘THE WAVERERS.’
  13. 13CHAPTER III.
  14. 14CHAPTER IV.
  15. 15CHAPTER V.
  16. 16CHAPTER VI.
  17. 17CHAPTER VII.
  18. 18CHAPTER VIII.
  19. 19CHAPTER IX.
  20. 20CHAPTER X.
  21. 21‘OSWALD MILLBANK.’
  22. 22CHAPTER XI.
  23. 23END OF BOOK I.
  24. 24BOOK II.
  25. 25CHAPTER I.
  26. 26introduction of that new principle and power into our constitution which
  27. 27CHAPTER II.
  28. 28CHAPTER III.
  29. 29CHAPTER IV.
  30. 30CHAPTER V.
  31. 31CHAPTER VI.
  32. 32CHAPTER VII.
  33. 33Book. Indeed an old Etonian, who still remembers with tenderness the
  34. 34END OF BOOK II.
  35. 35BOOK III.
  36. 36CHAPTER I.
  37. 37CHAPTER II.
  38. 38chapter. Though only nineteen now, he had attained his full stature,
  39. 39CHAPTER III.
  40. 40CHAPTER IV.
  41. 41part I consider it a thing as much gone by as tilts and tournaments.’
  42. 42scene. It wanted, perhaps, undulation of surface, but that deficiency
  43. 43scene. It was like suddenly visiting another country, living among other
  44. 44CHAPTER V.
  45. 45METROPOLIS OF LABOUR.
  46. 46END OF BOOK III.
  47. 47BOOK IV
  48. 48CHAPTER I.
  49. 49CHAPTER II.
  50. 50MR. G. O. A. HEAD, STALEYBRIDGE.
  51. 51CHAPTER III.
  52. 52CHAPTER IV.
  53. 53CHAPTER V.
  54. 54CHAPTER VI.
  55. 55CHAPTER VII.
  56. 56CHAPTER VIII.
  57. 57scene. In a moment the curtain will rise also.
  58. 58scene.
  59. 59CHAPTER IX.
  60. 60CHAPTER X.
  61. 61CHAPTER XI.
  62. 62CHAPTER XII.
  63. 63introduction Sidonia sought the society of the Princess Lucretia. He
  64. 64CHAPTER XIII.
  65. 65CHAPTER XIV.
  66. 66CHAPTER XV.
  67. 67CHAPTER XVI.
  68. 68END OF BOOK IV.
  69. 69BOOK V.
  70. 70CHAPTER I.
  71. 71CHAPTER II.
  72. 72CHAPTER III.
  73. 73CHAPTER IV.
  74. 74CHAPTER V.
  75. 75CHAPTER VI.
  76. 76CHAPTER VII.
  77. 77CHAPTER VIII.
  78. 78END OF BOOK V.
  79. 79BOOK VI.
  80. 80CHAPTER I.
  81. 81CHAPTER II.
  82. 82CHAPTER III.
  83. 83CHAPTER IV.
  84. 84part, he wished people would come to him, and never ask him to their
  85. 85CHAPTER V.
  86. 86CHAPTER VI.
  87. 87CHAPTER VII.
  88. 88CHAPTER VIII.
  89. 89END OF BOOK VI.
  90. 90BOOK VII.
  91. 91CHAPTER I.
  92. 92CHAPTER II.
  93. 93CHAPTER III.
  94. 94CHAPTER IV.
  95. 95CHAPTER V.
  96. 96CHAPTER VI.
  97. 97CHAPTER VII.
  98. 98CHAPTER VIII
  99. 99END OF BOOK VII.
  100. 100BOOK VIII.
  101. 101CHAPTER I.
  102. 102scene, and made their observations on the passing guests. They
  103. 103CHAPTER II.
  104. 104CHAPTER III.
  105. 105act of my political extinction. What we want, sir, is not to fashion
  106. 106CHAPTER IV.
  107. 107CHAPTER V.
  108. 108CHAPTER VI.
  109. 109CHAPTER VII.
  110. 110act.
  111. 111‘I!’
  112. 112END OF BOOK VIII.
  113. 113BOOK IX.
  114. 114CHAPTER I.
  115. 115CHAPTER II.
  116. 116CHAPTER III.
  117. 117CHAPTER IV.
  118. 118scene of his labours, to remind him through revolving years of toil and
  119. 119CHAPTER V.
  120. 120scene or sensation of life to distract his intelligence. One sacred
  121. 121CHAPTER VI.
  122. 122CHAPTER VII.

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