Books with author Lewis Wallace

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This book is an illustrated version of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace. Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem. His old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. They become enemies. Because of an unfortunate accident, Ben-Hur is sent to slave in the mines while his family is sent to leprosy caves.

The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell follows the adventures of the Wandering Prince who takes his role in the creating of history, by stepping into the service of Turkish Sultan and gets involved in Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and the Fall of the Byzantine Empire. Lew Wallace (1827-1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, politician, diplomat and author, best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century." He wrote several historical novels and biographies of American generals.

The story recounts in descriptive detail the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a fictional Jewish prince from Jerusalem, who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st century and becomes a charioteer and a Christian. Running in parallel with Judah's narrative is the unfolding story of Jesus, who comes from the same region and is a similar age. The novel reflects themes of betrayal, conviction, and redemption, with a revenge plot that leads to a story of love and compassion.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880 and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century". It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in sales. The book also inspired other novels with biblical settings and was adapted for the stage and motion picture productions. Ben-Hur remained at the top of the US all-time bestseller list until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936).

"Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular and beloved 19th century American novels. This faithful New Testament tale combines the events of the life of Jesus with grand historical spectacle in the exciting story of Judah of the House of Hur, a man who finds extraordinary redemption for himself and his family.A classic of faith, fortitude, and inspiration. "

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A classic story of redemption and forgiveness, Ben-Hur (subtitled A Tale of the Christ) is one of the most influential Christian novels of the nineteenth century, as it tells the stories of so many peripheral Biblical figures in addition to that of Jesus himself. From Roman tax collectors and charioteers, to lepers, fishermen, Pharisees, shepherds, John the Baptist and Pontius Pilate, Ben-Hur offers a narrative arc of redemption through piety, a theme cherished by Wallace’s Gilded Age readers. The story traces the life of the fictional main character Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman from Jerusalem whose future is upended when he is falsely accused of attempting to assassinate a Roman governor. Sent to the galleys as punishment, his mother and sister are caught up in his fate, jailed, contract leprosy, and are stripped of their family’s wealth and possessions. As Ben-Hur’s life intersects with the Biblical Jesus’s, compassion overrides his thirst for revenge against the merciless Romans who left his life in ruins.The narrative is divided into eight books, or parts, each with their own sub-chapters, and the unfolding of Ben-Hur’s story runs parallel to that of Jesus’s. The first book begins with the story of the birth of Jesus as outlined in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: Three Magi following a bright star come to Nazareth, where Mary and Joseph have stopped on their way to Bethlehem. In labor, and refused from an inn, they resort to a cave in a nearby hillside, surrounded by shepherds watching their flocks. There, Mary gives birth to the baby Jesus, whose arrival is heralded by angels and the visiting Magi from the East.

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