CHAPTER I.
Some ten years before the revolt of our American colonies,
there was situate in one of our midland counties,
on the borders of an extensive forest, an ancient
hall that belonged to the Herb...
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Biographies (3)
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 186...
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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 novel...
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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 tha...
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Venetia
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli