Ben Hurby Lewis Wallace | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Historical" |
| Pages: | 432 |
| Year of Publication: | 1880 |
| Date Read: | 02/07/1995 |
| Notes: | Ben Hur depicts the oppressive Roman occupation of ancient Palestine and the origins of Christianity. The Jew, Judah Ben-Hur, is wrongly accused by his former friend, the Roman Messala, of attempting to kill a Roman official. He is sent to be a slave and his mother and sister are imprisoned. Years later he returns and is reunited with his now leprous mother and sister. COMMENTS — Lew Wallace was the son of a governor of Indiana. He served in the Mexican War, practiced law in Indianapolis and attained the rank of major general of volunteers in the Union Army during the Civil War. |
| My Rating: | 6 |