Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. When published, it was a sensation for its immediacy and readability brought the

Originally published anonymously, ostensibly by a so-called “man of fashion”, the first part caused a considerable sensation in London society. Contemporary reviewers, suspicious of the numerous

Tancred; or, The New Crusade is a novel by Benjamin Disraeli, first published by Henry Colburn in three volumes. Together with Coningsby (1844) and Sybil (1845) it forms a sequence sometimes called