The complete online text of The Voyage of Captain Popanilla 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...

Byline: SARAH OLIVER The scene that greeted veteran yachtsman Tony Bullimore as he descended into the galley of his 102ft catamaran Team Legato was not pleasant - even by the standards of men who had been crammed together at sea for days....

STEVE BALE Rugby Union Correspondent If elements among the Twickenham crowd have been equivocal about some of the rugby England have played this season, even the grumpiest curmudgeon among this afternoon's 78,000-strong host will scarcely forbear to cheer Will Carling when he...