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Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. xxv, 387 pages ; 21 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxii)
The duchess one of the greatest heiresses of Britain singularly beautify and gifted with native grace had married in her teens one of the wealthiest and most powerful of our nobles and scarcely order than herself.
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Jul 18, 2013 · Synopsis. "I remember him a little boy," said the duchess, "a pretty little boy, but very shy. His mother brought him to us one day. She was a dear friend of mine; you know she was one of my bridesmaids?" "And you have never seen him since, mamma?" inquired a married daughter, who looked like the younger sister of her mother. "Never; he was an ...
Lothair (1870) was a late novel by Benjamin Disraeli, the first he wrote after his first term as Prime Minister. It deals with the comparative merits of the Catholic and Anglican churches as heirs of Judaism, and with the topical question of Italian unification. Though Lothair was a hugely popular work among 19th century readers, it now to some ...
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- Benjamin Disraeli
Lothair is born into wealth but raised by two guardians, a Scottish protestant and an Anglican priest converted to Roman Catholicism, who subsequently was elevated to cardinal. A good part of the book chronicles the tussle over Lothair's religious loyalties as he comes into his majority and assumes his vast inheritance.
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Apr 7, 2009 · Lothair. Paperback – April 7, 2009. Benjamin Disraeli was a British statesman and novelist. He was Prime Minister in 1868 and 1874. He gave the Conservative Party a policy of Tory democracy and imperialism. His travels furnished him with material for the Oriental descriptions he used in later novels and influenced his attitude toward foreign ...
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May 19, 2008 · Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Addeddate 2008-05-19 23:07:55
