Ben Hur

An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession.
This was the book that finally overcame the inherent suspicion of fiction that still prevailed in much of america in the late nineteenth century.
Wallace writes with a freshness and immediacy that brings every action-packed scene to life and illuminates the geography, ethnology and customs of the ancient world.

David Mayer has a position in the Department of Drama at the University of Manchester.

In the Desert
The Three Strangers
Gaspar the Greek
Melcbior
Baltbasar
The foppa Market
The People of Ferusalem
Fosepb and Mary
At Betblebem
The Ray from Heaven
The Arrival of the Magi
The Cbild Cbrist
Rome and fudea
Messala and Fudab
Fudab's Home
Fudab's Mother
The Accident
The Prisoner
Quintus Arrius
The Roman Galley
The Galley Slave
A Gleam of Hope
The Sea-Fight
Free and Adopted
At Antiocb
Distappinted
The Sroty of Simonides
Exploring
By the Fountain
Vengance Planned
The Orchard of Palms
Mallucb's Report
A Roman Revel
In an Arab Home
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