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| Title Statement | Ben-Hur: a tale of the Christ / Lew Wallace ; introduction by John Swansburg. |
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| Author | Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905 |
| Additional Contributors | Swansburg, John |
| Publication | New York: HarperPerennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,2015. |
| Edition | First Harper Perennial Legacy edition. |
| Extent of Item | xxii, 436 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9780062421234 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr01098511 |
| General Notes | Originally published in 1880 by Harper & Brothers. |
| Summary | In first century Judaea, Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur is betrayed by his childhood friend Messala and sentenced to life as a Roman slave. When, during a pirate attack in the aegean, Ben-Hur saves the life of a galley commander, his fortunes improve and he returns to Galilee a free man. There, his quest for vengeance turns into insurrection, but his life is transformed when he witnesses Christ's baptism by John the Baptist. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the best-selling novel of revenge and redemption, has been enormously popular since its publication in 1880. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Name | Jesus Christ |
| Tiberius,42 B.C.-37 A.D | |
| By Location | Rome--Fiction--History |
| By Title | Bible--Fiction--History of Biblical events |
| By Genre | Christian fiction |
| Religious fiction | |
| Biographical fiction | |
| Novels | |
