Sybil, or the Two Nations
By Benjamin Disraeli · Running time 16:50:47 · Romance
Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.
About this book
Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England" question. That phrase was first used by Thomas Carlyle in an essay of 1839 on Chartism, a working-class protest movement that plays a prominent role in this novel. The two nations are the rich and the poor, and the increasing gulf between them, and their condition also inspired such writers as Charles Dickens and Mrs. Gaskell, among others (one of whom, Friederich Engels, was the disciple of Karl Marx, and in his The Condition of the Working Class in England in 18
Description from the LibriVox catalogue.
Chapters and downloads on LibriVox →
You might also like
- Henrietta TempleBenjamin Disraeli · 17:30:43
- Coningsby, or The New GenerationBenjamin Disraeli · 17:53:20
- EmmaJane Austen · 18:02:30
- Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 13:06:44
- Pride and Prejudice (version 2)Jane Austen · 13:25:01
- Mansfield ParkJane Austen · 16:03:08
- IvanhoeSir Walter Scott · 19:24:54
- HarvesterGene Stratton-Porter · 14:54:23