Disraeli's Library

The library at Hughenden House, Benjamin Disraeli's countryside home in the Chilterns. Disraeli inherited a vast number of books from his father but sold many to pay off debts and raise funds...these are the 4,000 or so that remained and are all non-fiction...Disraeli apparently said that if he wanted to read a good novel he'd write it himself!

Reading: Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons