Ben Hur By Lewis Wallace - Wordsworth Classics Special edition The surly older brother of

The surly older brother of her best friend’s soulmate

and they've barely spoken in years

The third novel in the Earth's Children series

Everything she knows

ISBN: 9781840227963

Ben Hur By Lewis Wallace - Wordsworth Classics Special edition The surly older brother ofAn 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