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.
- ISBN10 1853262838
- ISBN13 9781853262838
- Publish Date 5 January 1996 (first published December 1954)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English