About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 50. Chapters: American Christian novels, Roman Catholic Church novels, Left Behind, The Robe, The Keys of the Kingdom, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Acts of God, Oxygen, The Ezekiel Option, Ice, Windswept House: A Vatican Novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, In His Image, Green, The Shack, White, Birth of an Age, Christy, Warsaw Requiem, Chronicles of Brothers, The Christy Miller series, Silence, Eyo, The Twelfth Imam, The Fifth Man, This Present Darkness, The Last Templar, The Last Sin Eater, Fabiola, In His Steps, Riven, Christ Clone Trilogy, Tom Playfair, Vienna Prelude, The Gospel According to the Son, Babylon Rising, Black, Heaven's Wager, The Templar Salvation, Blink, Mark of the Lion Series, Callista, Between Heaven and Hell, A Voice in the Wind, The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary, The Atonement Child, Prayer for the Living, The Scarlet Thread, The Sierra Jensen Series, Forbidden, The Penny, Prophet, An Echo in the Darkness, The Hammer of God, Veritas Project, When It Was Dark, A World Away: The Quest of Dan Clay, The Last Days. Excerpt: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers. The novel was a phenomenal best-seller, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the best-selling American novel and retained this distinction until the 1936 publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. Book sales then surpassed Gone with the Wind, following the release of the highly successful 1959 MGM film adaptation; the film winning eleven Academy Awards. The book was the first work of fiction to be blessed by a Pope, receiving benediction from Pope Leo XIII. The story tells of the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Ben-Hur's childhood friend...
