Vivian Grey

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable and George Morland. A young man of ability and no scruples sets out to make himself indispensable to a great man and is destroyed by his own cleverness. Disraeli wrote it anonymously at twenty-one; London read it as a roman a clef, identified everyone, and the scandal nearly ended him before he began. This edi...