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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace

Religion & MysticismEnglish
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Judah Ben-Hur, a young Jewish prince of Jerusalem, is falsely accused of trying to kill the Roman governor when a tile falls from his roof, and his boyhood…

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Author
Lew Wallace
Category
Religion & Mysticism
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

Judah Ben-Hur, a young Jewish prince of Jerusalem, is falsely accused of trying to kill the Roman governor when a tile falls from his roof, and his boyhood friend Messala, now a proud Roman officer, has him sent as a slave to the galleys while his mother and sister vanish into prison. Saved during a sea battle, Judah is adopted by a Roman admiral, trains as a charioteer and returns to the East to defeat Messala in a great chariot race at Antioch, while his life crosses again and again with that of Jesus of Nazareth.

Context and significance

Lew Wallace (1827–1905), a Union general in the Civil War and later governor of New Mexico, published the novel in 1880, and it became the best-selling American novel of the nineteenth century after Uncle Tom's Cabin. The 1959 film won eleven Oscars.

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