Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace (1827-1905)

Lew Wallace's 1880 novel sets the life of a wronged Jewish prince against the unfolding ministry of Christ. Falsely condemned to the galleys by his boyhood friend Messala, Judah Ben-Hur fights his way back to confront him in the great chariot race at Antioch, only to find his thirst for vengeance answered by the Nazarene whose path keeps crossing his own. The best selling American novel of the nineteenth century, it carried the gospel story into parlors that would never have opened a tract and fixed the image of the Roman East in the popular Christian imagination for generations.

16.5 hrs total · 81 chapters