The complete online text of The Rise of Iskander 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...

This article explores the narrative structure of Iskander's prose, linking his non-linear discourse, tendency to branch out, descriptive use of language, and interaction with the word to the parody and self-irony typical of his contemporaries. The accidental, coincidental thematic links that inform Iskander's prose...

Raouf Iskander May 14, 2005 Raouf Iskander, of DeWitt, passed away May 14, 2005, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, New York. A native of Cairo, Egypt, Mr. Iskander was a professor of French literature at Cairo University. He has resided here...