Sybil (Annotated)

Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil; or, The Two Nations (1845) is a searching Condition-of-England novel that dramatizes the alarming gulf between aristocratic privilege and industrial poverty in early Victorian Britain. Through the intertwined stories of Charles Egremont, a young nobleman awakening to social conscience, and Sybil Gerard, the morally radiant daughter of a Chartist worker, Disraeli fuses ro...