Coningsby

Disraeli included schoolboy romantic friendships in several of his novels, including Contarini Fleming, in which the title character, who appears to be Disraeli, falls in love with a boy named Musaeus: "It seemed to me that I never beheld so lovely and so pensive a countenance. His face was quite oval, his eyes deep blue: his rich brown curls clustered in hyacinthine grace upon the delicate rose of his downy cheek, and shaded the light blue veins of his clear white forehead. I beheld him: I...