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An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession. This was the book... Read Full Overview

An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession. This was the book... Read Full Overview

First published in 1880, "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" by Lew Wallace is considered one of the most important and influential Christian novels of the nineteenth-century. The novel follows much of the life of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince from Jerusalem living in the time... Read Full Overview

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is one of the great historical novels of the nineteenth century, an epic story of betrayal, slavery, revenge, faith, and redemption set against the world of ancient Rome and the life of Christ. Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince of... Read Full Overview

Ben-Hur surpassed the fabulously popular Uncle Tom in the 19th century and was beloved for its attempt to faithfully represent the life and times of Jesus, and the person of Jesus himself. This is ironic, given that when Wallace began writing the book, he was not very religious... Read Full Overview

A beautifully designed Harper Perennial Legacy Edition of Lew Wallace's enduring epic, a tale of revenge, betrayal, honor, compassion and the power of forgiveness, set during the life of Christ, with an introduction from John Swansburg

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In Roman times, a man wrongly accused of crimes he didn't commit rises to compete for his life.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Ben-Hur; A Tale Of The Christ by Lew Wallace Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880. Considered... Read Full Overview

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is one of the great historical novels of the nineteenth century, an epic story of betrayal, slavery, revenge, faith, and redemption set against the world of ancient Rome and the life of Christ. Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince of... Read Full Overview

Ben-Hur es una novela del escritor Lewis Wallace, publicada por primera vez el 12 de noviembre de 1880, que relata la historia del joven Jud Ben Hur y sus peripecias en un mundo en que se gesta una nueva fe. Se han hecho varias versiones f lmicas de la novela, las dos m s importantes... Read Full Overview

The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a likeness to a caterpillar crawling from the south to the north. Standing on its red-and-white cliffs, and looking off under the path of the rising sun, one sees... Read Full Overview

Judah Ben-Hur is a Jewish prince from Jerusalem, who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the first century. Running in parallel with Judah's narrative is the unfolding story of Jesus, who is from the same region and around the same age. As Judah is being marched... Read Full Overview

Unabridged, 8.5" x 11" edition (21.59 x 27.94 cm) with small type (9-point) and three column format on cream paper . In 1876, former Union general Law Wallace (1827-1905) sets out to a meeting of Civil War veterans. In the train to Indianapolis, he talks with Ingersoll, a fellow... Read Full Overview

Ben-Hur is the remarkable saga of a man framed for attempting to murder a Roman official, and condemned to death as a galley slave. Epic in scope, it recreates Imperial Rome from a thrilling sea battle, to the famous chariot race, to the agony of Crucifixion.