Benjamin Disraeli (who would become the Prime Minister of England in 1874) wrote &quot;Sibyl&quot; as a young adult in 1845. The book is alternately titled &quot;<i>The Two Nations</i>&quot; because it bespeaks a nation divided between the poor and the affluent and it is the second novel&nbsp;of the Young England Trilogy, which began with &quot;Coningsby&quot; in 1844, and finished with &quot;Tancred&quot; in 1847.<br /><br />The novel depicts a group of wealthy Englishmen, amusing themselves by eating and drinking at different restaurants and attending horse races.<br /><br />&quot;Sybil&quot; is considered one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century.