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New Releases by Lew WallaceLew Wallace is the author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ (2024), Ben-Hur (Illustrated) (2023), Ben-Hur A Tale of The Christ (2023), The Fair God, or: The Last of the 'Tzins (2022), The Wooing of Malkatoon (2022).
Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ
release date: Jun 01, 2024
release date: Dec 10, 2023
Ben-Hur A Tale of The Christ
release date: Oct 01, 2023
The Fair God, or: The Last of the 'Tzins
release date: Nov 22, 2022
release date: Nov 13, 2022
release date: Nov 13, 2022
Ben-Hur: a Tale of the Christ (Annotated Edition)
release date: Nov 09, 2021
Ben-Hur, A Tale of the Christ (Annotated)
release date: Apr 17, 2021
Ben-Hur, A Tale of the Christ Annotated
release date: Apr 14, 2021
Ben-Hur. A Tale of the Christ. Illustrated edition
release date: Jan 08, 2021
Ben-Hur (Deluxe Library Binding)
release date: Dec 29, 2020
release date: Sep 29, 2020
The Prince of India (Volume 1)
release date: Mar 28, 2020
The Prince of India (Volume 2)
release date: Jun 26, 2018
Ben-Hur; a Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
release date: Sep 02, 2017
Ben-Hur: a Tale of the Christ - Classic Book
release date: Jul 20, 2017
Ben-Hur: a Tale of Christ
release date: May 09, 2017
THE FAIR GOD (Illustrated)
release date: Sep 13, 2016
Ben-Hur (A Tale of the Christ)
release date: Sep 05, 2016
Ben Hur: a Tale of the Christ
release date: Feb 12, 2016
release date: Dec 18, 2015
The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell
release date: Nov 03, 2015
The Fair God Or, the Last of The 'Tzins
release date: Aug 02, 2015
Ben-Hur : a Tale of Christ (Annotated and Illustrated)
release date: Oct 13, 2014
A detailed introduction to the meaning of title, San Calixto Catacombs, the book and the author is provides in the beginning and a few images relating to Christ and the contemporary Roman empire are added.The word ''Ben'' is frequently used as a shortened version of the given name Benjamin as well as Benedict, Bengt, Bennett, Benoit, Benvolio, Bentley, or Ebenezer and other names. In Arabic and Hebrew, "Ben" means "son of" forming part of surnames, e.g. ''Abraham ben Abraham'' is ''Abraham son of Abraham''. Besides many other, one of the Biblical meanings for Hur is- ''A prominent official in Israel. With Aaron he held up Moses'' hands during the battle against the Amalekites (Exodus 17:10,12) and assisted him as judicial head of the people during Moses'' stay in the mount (Exodus 24:14). There is yet another description from urbandictionary.com which describes, "If one is said to be "Ben Hur" it implys that one is a man of small stature....yet a large amount of sexual appeal. Thus one can never be....bigger than Ben Hur." Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a novel by Lew Wallace, was first published on November 12, 1880. It was considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century" and was the best-selling American novel from the time of its publication, superseding the sale of Harriet Beecher Stowe''s Uncle Tom''s Cabin (1852). It remained at the top until the publication of Margaret Mitchell''s Gone with the Wind (1936). Following release of the 1959 MGM film adaptation of Ben-Hur, which was seen by tens of millions and won 11 Academy Awards in 1960, the sales of this book surpassed Gone with the Wind. Blessed by Pope Leo XIII, the novel was the first work of fiction to be so honored religiously. The story recounts the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Judah''s childhood friend Messala returns home as an ambitious commanding officer of the Roman legions. They come to realize that they have changed and hold very different views and aspirations. During a military parade, a loose tile is accidentally dislodged from the roof of Judah''s house and hits the Roman governor, knocking him from his horse. Although Messala knows that they are not guilty of attempted assassination, he condemns the Ben-Hur family. Without trial, Judah is sent to the Roman galleys for life; his mother and sister are imprisoned in a cell previously used for lepers and all the family property is confiscated.Through good fortune, befriending and saving the commander of his ship, Judah survives and is trained as a soldier. He returns to Jerusalem, where he seeks revenge against his one-time friend and redemption for his family. Running in parallel with Ben-Hur''s narrative is the unfolding story of Jesus, who comes from the same region and is a similar age. The two reflect themes of betrayal, conviction and redemption. With the Crucifixion, Ben-Hur recognizes that the Christ stands for a different goal than revenge, and he becomes Christian, turning to supporting the new religion with money which he has inherited, inspired by love and the talk of keys to a greater kingdom than any on earth.Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10, 1827 - February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author. Wallace served as governor of the New Mexico Territory at the time of the Lincoln County War and worked to bring an end to the fighting.Of his novels and biographies, he is best known for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling book since its publication, and called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century." It has been adapted four times for films.
BEN-HUR a Tale of the Christ
release date: Aug 13, 2014
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 only the Desert of Arabia, where the east winds, so hateful to vinegrowers of Jericho, have kept their playgrounds since the beginning. Its feet are well covered by sands tossed from the Euphrates, there to lie, for the mountain is a wall to the pasture-lands of Moab and Ammon on the west--lands which else had been of the desert a part.The Arab has impressed his language upon everything south and east of Judea, so, in his tongue, the old Jebel is the parent of numberless wadies which, intersecting the Roman road--now a dim suggestion of what once it was, a dusty path for Syrian pilgrims to and from Mecca--run their furrows, deepening as they go, to pass the torrents of the rainy season into the Jordan, or their last receptacle, the Dead Sea. Out of one of these wadies--or, more particularly, out of that one which rises at the extreme end of the Jebel, and, extending east of north, becomes at length the bed of the Jabbok River--a traveller passed, going to the table-lands of the desert. To this person the attention of the reader is first besought.Judged by his appearance, he was quite forty-five years old. His beard, once of the deepest black, flowing broadly over his breast, was streaked with white. His face was brown as a parched coffee-berry, and so hidden by a red kufiyeh (as the kerchief of the head is at this day called by the children of the desert) as to be but in part visible. Now and then he raised his eyes, and they were large and dark. He was clad in the flowing garments so universal in the East; but their style may not be described more particularly, for he sat under a miniature tent, and rode a great white dromedary.It may be doubted if the people of the West ever overcome the impression made upon them by the first view of a camel equipped and loaded for the desert. Custom, so fatal to other novelties, affects this feeling but little. At the end of long journeys with caravans, after years of residence with the Bedawin, the Western-born, wherever they may be, will stop and wait the passing of the stately brute. The charm is not in the figure, which not even love can make beautiful; nor in the movement, the noiseless stepping, or the broad careen. As is the kindness of the sea to a ship, so that of the desert to its creature. It clothes him with all its mysteries; in such manner, too, that while we are looking at him we are thinking of them: therein is the wonder. The animal which now came out of the wady might well have claimed the customary homage. Its color and height; its breadth of foot; its bulk of body, not fat, but overlaid with muscle; its long, slender neck, of swanlike curvature; the head, wide between the eyes, and tapering to a muzzle which a lady''s bracelet might have almost clasped; its motion, step long and elastic, tread sure and soundless--all certified its Syrian blood, old as the days of Cyrus, and absolutely priceless. There was the usual bridle, covering the forehead with scarlet fringe, and garnishing the throat with pendent brazen chains, each ending with a tinkling silver bell; but to the bridle there was neither rein for the rider nor strap for a driver. The furniture perched on the back was an invention which with any other people than of the East would have made the inventor renowned. It consisted of two wooden boxes, scarce four feet in length, balanced so that one hung at each side; the inner space, softly lined and carpeted, was arranged to allow the master to sit or lie half reclined; over it all was stretched a green awning. Broad back and breast straps, and girths, secured with countless knots and ties, held the device in place.
release date: Feb 17, 2013
release date: Apr 15, 2011
release date: Apr 01, 2008
Fair God ; Or, The Last of the 'Tzins. A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico
release date: Jan 01, 2004
release date: Jun 01, 1994
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