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Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur
Author: Lew Wallace
A spiritual tale of the quest for love, the recovery of identity and patrimony, Ben-Hur never fails to delight in its detail and realism. As David Mayer's introduction and notes make explicit, Ben-Hur is marked by traces of contemporary issues and American Victorian concerns and tensions which shed important light on social and cul...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780192831996
ISBN-10: 0192831992
Publication Date: 9/10/1998
Pages: 530
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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I wasn't sure I'd like the book since it had been written about 130 years ago. Too often books of that era tend to be overly sentimental or preachy. I was pleasantly surprised that the book was very well written. I found it be pretty historically accurate with a nice plot development. It was a very nice quick read.


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