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In Two Volumes
By Benjamin Disraeli
Second edition
Originally edited by T. E. Kebbel. Second edition introduction
and additional annotation by Paul Smith
First published in 1882 and originally entitled Selected Speeches
of the Late Right Honourable The Earl of Beaconsfield, these two
volumes—newly introduced by Disraeli biographer and British
historian Paul Smith, who has also provided additional
annotation for the modern reader—present the key speeches
of the greatest conservative orator, thinker, and statesman of
nineteenth-century Britain.
Ignorance of Benjamin Disraeli is simply ignorance of a whole
century of English history. Yet this part of the Disraeli oeuvre,
his inimitable speeches, has not been available for over 120
years. The publication of the second edition of these books
thus fills a serious gap in the current literature—and then
some, now that Paul Smith, well know for his lucid and
acclaimed biography of Disraeli, has introduced the collection to
contemporary students of British history and political thought,
expanded and updated the headnotes, and added explanatory
footnotes. These are truly indispensable volumes.
ISBN-13: 978-1-934182-06-2
$115.00
ISBN-13: 978-1-934182-04-8
$65.00
ISBN-13: 978-1-934182-05-5
$65.00
history at the University of Southampton. His biography
Disraeli: A Brief Life (Cambridge, 1996) received wide critical
acclaim.