1st Edition

Disraeli the Novelist

By Thom Braun Copyright 1981
    162 Pages
    by Routledge

    162 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1981, this book attempts to approach a better understanding of Disraeli the man through his life as a novelist. It is not a series of literary criticisms, rather an attempt to see how ‘fiction’ and the act of ‘fictionalising’ played an important part in Disraeli’s life. The author discusses how Disraeli’s novels in terms of how they reflected various stages of his life and development while assuming no knowledge of the, now mostly out-of-print, books on the part of the reader. This book fills the gap between the standard and comprehensive political biographies and the few literary analyses that appeared the twenty years prior to its publication.

    Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Dance on a Tight-Rope 2 Sleight-of-Hand Tricks 3 Rivers of Diamonds 4 Fortune and Fancy 5 Animal Magnetism, or Unknown Tongues 6 Inhabitants of Different Planets 7 Spell of Social Sorcery 8 The Frame of Age; Index

    Biography

    Thom Braun