| #2465203 in Books | 1998-09-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.70 x1.10 x5.10l, | File type: PDF | 560 pages||26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.| A Book for All of Humanity|By Customer|All I remembered about Ben Hur was the Charlton Heston movie, which I saw when I was young -- and all I remembered of that was the galley scenes and of course the chariot scene. The reason I bought and read the book was because of the title: A Tale of the Christ. About half way through the book, I did a Google Search on it and found||“Compared with other romances . . . Ben-Hur easily passes them all, by a vitality which has a touch of genius.” —Carl Van Doren|From the Inside Flap|One of the most popular American novels o
A spiritual tale of the quest for love, the recovery of identity and patrimony, Ben-Hur never fails to delight in its detail and realism. As David Mayer's introduction makes explicit, Ben-Hur is marked by traces of contemporary issues and American Victorian concerns and tensions which shed important light on social and cultural history.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Ben-Hur (Oxford World's Classics) | Lew Wallace. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
