Sybil (1/2) 💛 By Benjamin Disraeli. FULL Audiobook

Sybil. By Benjamin Disraeli FULL Audiobook
Sybil is a novel written by Benjamin Disraeli in 1845. The book is also known as The Two Nations. The story is set in England and depicts the social and economic divide between the rich and the poor. The novel follows the lives of two characters, Lord Egremont and Sybil Gerard, who come from different social classes. Lord Egremont is a wealthy aristocrat, while Sybil is the daughter of a radical conservative who is passionate about social reform.

The novel begins with a group of affluent men discussing their plans to go out to the country. During this trip to Marney Abby, Lord Egremont meets Walter Gerard, who is a radical conservative eager to rectify the inequality between the wealthy and the poor. His daughter is the charming Sybil, who shares her father's passion for social reform. Egremont also meets the radical Stephen Morley, who seeks to court Sybil.

Lord Egremont is the younger brother of an English earl (Lord Marley), and he resolves to go undercover to investigate the conditions of the working classes. Morley and Gerard team up to address members of Parliament and convince them to pass the People's Charter. Their mission is not successful, and their cause faces severe opposition by the Tories who have lately come into power in Parliament. Queen Victoria retains Whig her ladies-in-waiting (despite protests from the would-be Prime Minister, Robert Peel). Violence from this Chartist movement erupts in the city of Birmingham.

Egremont himself appeals to Parliament. When Sybil reads a particularly moving speech of Egremont's, advocating for the rights of the working class, she becomes impressed and enraptured by him. Shortly thereafter, Stephen Morley forces Sybil (whose father has not returned from a protest meeting) to marry him. The two are both arrested, but Egremont rescues Sybil and Morley rescues Sybil's imprisoned father, Gerard. After a period of imprisonment, strikes are organized across the country, some peaceful, some antagonistic and violent. Sibyl is taken hostage by one such group (the Hell-cats). There is a standoff between Egremont's group of men and his brother, Lord Marley's men. Marley, Morley, and Gerard all eventually die from this altercation. As a result, Egremont becomes Lord of Marney in his brother's stead and Sybil inherits an estate of her own. The two resolve to not give up the fight to unify England as one nation.

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More: Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, The Two Nations
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