Endymion

Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, Jean-Antoine Watteau and George Mears. A politician's son, ruined by his father's failure, rises from a clerkship to the cabinet with the help of three women who between them run more of England than the ministers do. Disraeli wrote his last novel after leaving office for the final time, and put half the public men of his l...