Complete and unabridged paperback edition. The Rise of Iskander is the seventh novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become Prime Minister of Great Britain. The Rise of Iskander was written in Bath, England in the winter of 1832-3. It is based on the life of George Castriota, better known as Skanderbeg, a prince and national hero of Albania (which Disraeli had visited two years earlier on his Grand Tour). Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.