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"Vivian Grey" is the first novel of the British author and former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. It chronicles the story of a young ambitious man who enters the highest political and social circles of Georgian England.
Its vivid portrayal of the fashionable world of London and its notorious dandy figures made the book one of the most popular novels of its time.

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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) - Earl of Beaconsfield - entstammte einer jüdisch-italienischen Familie. Konvertiert zum Christentum, politische Karriere bis zum britischen Premierminister. In seinem literarischen Werk Anprangerung von sozialer Ungerechtigkeit sowie Forderung von religiöser Toleranz (insbesondere) gegenüber dem Judentum.

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