Coningsby; Or, The New Generation  by Benjamin Disraeli

First published in the year 1844, the present political novel ‘Coningsby; Or, The New Generation’ by Benjamin Disraeli, follows the life and career of Henry Coningsby, the orphan grandson of a wealthy marquess, Lord Monmouth. Lord Monmouth initially disapproved of Coningsby’s parents’ marriage, but on their death he relents and sends the boy to be educated at Eton College. At Eton Coningsby meets and befriends Oswald Millbank, the son of a rich cotton manufacturer who is a bitter enemy of Lord Monmouth. The two older men represent old and new wealth in society.