The complete online text of Venetia 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...

Early Music CANTA VENETIA! * Maria-Luz Alvarez (sop); Lex Eisenhardt (gtr) * ETCETERA 1316 (54:00 *) Music of OBIZZI, FOSCARINI, BERTI, CORBETTA, PESENTI, LANDI Composers who worked in Venice in Monteverdi's time make up this program of solo madrigals, arias, and...

PUNTERS' darling Venetia Williams today proved that she has many more strings to her Cheltenham Festival bow than just Gold Cup ante- post favourite Teeton Mill with an exciting five-strong team for the Champion and Stayers' Hurdles. Bellator, formerly handled by Toby Balding,...

An aging U.S. population faces a looming crisis in hearing loss, researchers said Saturday. Some research holds promise, but much is in the early stages.By 2050, there could be as many as 50 million people in the United States with impaired hearing, Steven Greenberg of...

Another study of the Port of New York is getting underway, this one worth up to $1.2 million and awarded to a company without putting it out for competitive bidding. The board of the Industrial Development Agency unanimously approved the contract at its meeting Tuesday...