The complete online text of Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield.

Disraeli's novels merit renewed attention not only because of their wit, insight, breadth, and vision but because they present strikingly original imagined worlds. Like the other major Victorian novelists, Disraeli is a deft psychologist and a student of...

The life of Benjamin Disraeli, later Lord Beaconsfield, is a useful reminder to students of Victorian England that most generalizations about the period are worth questioning. It seemed impossible that a middle-class Jew given to endless debts, messy aff...

The English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), supported imperialism while opposing free trade. The leader of the Conservative party, he served as prime minister in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880. Benjamin Disraeli was born on...

As residents of New Orleans, we have a proposal to make to the good people of Kenner: Let's swap mayors. Your mayor, Ed Muniz, is already an important figure in New Orleans because he's the founder and captain of Bndymion. This year, especially...

Mardi Gras is a movable feast. From season to season, parade groups come and go - some for good reason, some for bad. And so in Carnival 2003, there's a big change coming. When the tremendously popular Krewe of Endymion rolls Saturday, March 1,...

Carnival revelers streamed into the city Saturday _ and Mardi Gras organizers hoped to throw such a fantastic party that visitors would vow to return to this tourist-dependent city again.Tourism officials expect at least as many visitors as last year, 700,000, to come for the...

From costumed men on horseback riding rural roads to an "American Idol" and bead-throwing marchers, there are events in the weekend leading up to Mardi Gras to please almost anyone.Cars began streaming into the city Friday, choking highway traffic, as grocery stores filled with people...