Ixion in Heaven

By Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli was a British politician who twice served as the Prime Minister and also became the Earl of Beaconsfield. Disraeli is noted for being influential as a politician and as a novelist, and Ixion in Heaven is one of his historical works, set in contemporary Europe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Krill Press
• Release date: Dec 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781518342677

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli was a British statesman and politician who twice served as prime minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or “Tory democracy”. He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the British Empire, and used military action to expand it, both of which were popular among British voters. Disraeli was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister.

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IXION IN HEAVEN

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Benjamin Disraeli

YURITA PRESS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I. An Errant King

PART II. A Mortal Among the Gods.

Ixion in Heaven

By

Benjamin Disraeli

Ixion in Heaven

Published by Yurita Press

New York City, NY

First published circa 1881

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PART I. AN ERRANT KING

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THE THUNDER GROANED, THE WIND howled, the rain fell in hissing torrents, impenetrable darkness covered the earth. A blue and forky flash darted a momentary light over the landscape. A Doric temple rose in the centre of a small and verdant plain, surrounded on all sides by green and hanging woods.

‘Jove is my only friend,’ exclaimed a wanderer, as he muffled himself up in his mantle; ‘and were it not for the porch of his temple, this night, methinks, would complete the work of my loving wife and my dutiful subjects.’

The thunder died away, the wind sank into silence, the rain ceased, and the parting clouds exhibited the glittering crescent of the young moon. A sonorous and majestic voice sounded from the skies:—

‘Who art thou that hast no other friend than Jove?’ ‘One whom all mankind