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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Cambridge Society edition ; xxxiii, 577, [1] pages frontispiece, 4 plates 20 cm OCLC 2503533 LCCN 05007378 LC PR4084 1905 ; art nouveau style embossed jade green cloth with dark green and gold designs and a paste-down black and white illustration; no dustjacket ; Chapter I. An Impending Political Crisis -- Chapter II . Queen Of Fashion -- Chapter III . Endymion -- Chapter IV. A Queen Without A Throne -- Chapter V. Zenobia's News -- Chapter VI. The Beginning Of Revolution -- Chapter VII. Death Of George IV. -- Chapter VIII . Hopes And Fears -- Chapter IX. Breaking The News -- Chapter X. Retirement -- Chapter XI . Hurstley -- Chapter XII . A New Existence -- Chapter XIII. Job Thornberry's Views -- Chapter XIV. Endymion's Future -- Chapter XV. A Hurried Trip To Town -- Chapter XVI. Humble Friends -- Chapter XVII . Sir Robert Arrives -- Chapter XVIII. Disappointment -- Chapter XIX. Endymion's Prospects -- Chapter XX. New Associations -- Chapter XXI . A Glimpse Of Gay Life -- Chapter XXII. Waldershare and Imogene -- Chapter XXIII . Mr. Vigo's Proposal -- Chapter XXIV. Youthful Orators -- Chapter XXV. A Sad Christmas -- Chapter XXVI. Nigel's Dearest Wis It was the last novel Disraeli published before his death. Endymion is a romance, although Disraeli took the unusual step of setting it between 1819 and 1859. This meant that the hero of the novel-Endymion Ferrars-had to be a Whig, rather than a Tory. The time period that Disraeli chose was dominated by the Whig party; there would have been little opportunity for a young, rising Tory. Given that, it seems likely that Disraeli chose the time period so he could dwell for a final time in the world in which he grew up and began his ascent. William Pitt Ferrars, a rising Tory politician with cabinet ambitions, is disappointed of his hopes by the fall of the Tory ministry of the Duke of Wellington in 1832, and his party's overwhelming defeat in that year's parliamentary election. He retires from his opulent house in Hill Street, London, to the modest country estate of Hurstley; his failure to reenter the government in Sir Robert Peel's brief ministry in 1835, and his inability to secure a parliamentary seat in the subsequent elections, leads his wife to die of sorrow and disillusionment, and ultimately to his own suicide.He leaves behind him two adolescent children, Endymion and Myra, who are determined to redeem their father's legacy. The title character's name is a reference to the shepherd Endymion of Greek mythology, familiar in 19th-century culture as the title of an 1818 John Keats poem among other references. ; Endymion is Disraeli in his youth. Zenobia, a queen of fashion, is based on his Lady Blessington with a combination of some other great lady. She was Benjamin Disraeli's first great patroness. The novel is full of political lessons and conceits, and its pictures of aristocratic circles, with the semi-ministerial management of English affairs by the queens of fashionable society on behalf of their Endymions, not only expose the romance of Disraeli's own life, but also reveal the things behind the scenes which, perhaps, none so well could have done as this Jewish ex-premier of England in the literary winding up of his strange eventful life. It is this inner view of Disraeli's novel which gives its real significance.;--Wikipedia ; Sir Edmund William Gosse was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. His account of his childhood in the book Father and Son has been described as the first psychological biography. His friendship with the sculptor Hamo Thornycroft inspired a successful career as a historian of late-Victorian sculpture. His translations of Henrik Ibsen helped to promote that playwright in England, and he encouraged the careers of Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt, W. B. Yeats and James Joyce. He also lectured in English literature at Cambridge University. FINE. Book.