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Description: BENJAMIN DISRAELI. Life Events | Struggles | Accomplishments.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI. Life Events | Struggles | Accomplishments. 

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Life Events  | Struggles | Accomplishments

Born in 1804 to a family of Italian Decent

HAPPINESS - “Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action”.

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In November 1821 Benjamin was articled for 400 guineas by his father for 2 years to a firm of solicitors

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At 18 he left school and studied for a year at home in his father's excellent library of 25,000 books.

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In 1824, encouraged by his friend John Murray, Disraeli wrote his first novel, the crude and jejune political satire “ Aylmer Papillon ”.

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H e speculated recklessly in South American mining shares, and, when he lost all a year later, he was left so badly in debt that he did not recover until well past middle age.

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He next became involved in a project sponsored by John Murray to publish a daily paper  The Representative . He failed Miserably

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I n his novel  Vivian Grey  (1826–27), published anonymously, he criticized Murray while telling the story of the failure. Disraeli was later to be unmasked as the author, and he was widely criticized.

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Benjamin Disraeli, published the Novel  Vivian Grey  anonymously but after people got to know about him being the author, he was criticized widely as it contained way too many grammatical errors.

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Post this fiasco, he wrote another novel,  Contarini   Fleiming ,  which also was a major failure and  Disraeli wrote  "I was ridiculous. It was time to die."

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Back to back failures, had a very huge impact on him and he had a severe nervous breakdown.

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