Charles Egremont, a younger son of the aristocracy, begins on the eve of the 1837 Derby and ends up among the hand-loom weavers and miners of the north. There he meets Sybil Gerard, the devout daughter of a Chartist leader, and sees how the Victorian factory towns live, the two nations of rich and poor who know nothing of each other.
The future prime minister’s most famous novel, which gave politics the phrase ‘two nations’. Download the free EPUB.