Benjamin Disraeli

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Excerpt from Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography R. L. Stevenson proclaimed himself a true blue Meredithian. In Disraeli's case, emphatically, the style was the man. His own acts have a close relation to his own words, and, as he said, so he did, them. As far as may he, therefore, I have left him to tell his own tale. Lucky is the biographer for whom Disraeli's always self-revealing novels exist, and the classic Biography of Lord George Bentinck, and the Home Letters, shrewd as Walpole's, yet unlike his, since they are lighted and warmed at the constant fires of a son's and a brother's love. Accordingly, too, I have gath ered together Disraeli's letters - some published al ready in scattered papers and books, others here for the first time. To these are added the spoken word table-talk - the Table of Grosvenor Gate and Down ing Street, of Bradenham and Hughenden, and that of the ('arlton Club smoking-room, even that Table of the House itself, which he once felt relieved to find safelv separating him from certain gesticulating oratorv of the opposing Front Bench. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.