Sybil Or the Two Nations
- 2nd ed.
- 1 online resource (465 pages)
- Oxford World's Classics Ser. .
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Disraeli vividly depicts the appalling conditions of the poor-their pitiful wages, their miserably overcrowded tenements, and their exploitation by the new breed of powerful industrialists-as an indirect plea for social and political reform and for the fulfilment of his dream of a new, more democratic England.