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| Author | Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Longmans & Green |
| Publication date | 1880 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | NA |
Endymion is a novel published in 1880 by Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, the former Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was the last novel Disraeli published before his death. He had been writing another, Falconet, when he died; it was published, incomplete, after his death.
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Plot introduction
Background
Like most of Disraeli's novels, 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 in order to move a final time in the world in which he grew up and began his ascent.
Characters in "Endymion"
- Endymion Ferrars
- Myra Ferrars
- Lord Roehampton
- King Florestan
- Lady Montfort
- Lord Montfort
- Count Ferrol
- Baron Sergius
- The Duke of St Angelo
- Bertie Tremaine
- Tremaine Bertie
- Thornberry
- The Archbishop of Tyre
- St. Barbe
Release details
- 1880, UK, Longmans & Green (ISBN NA), Pub date ? ? 1880, Hardback (3 Volume First edition)
References
- Blake, Robert (1966). Disraeli, New York: St Martin's Press. ISBN 0-19-832903-2.
- Blake, Robert. "The Dating of Endymion" in The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 17, No. 66. (May, 1966), 177-182.
