About this title: Wallace's 1880 blockbuster follows the fortunes of Judah Ben-Hur, who lived in the time of Jesus. Made into a famous film, BEN-HUR is an inspirational tale that manages to also be a gripping adventure.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper, New York
Date Published: 1880
Description: Good. vii, 560, 12 p. 18 cm. "Some Popular Novels published by Harper & Brothers New York" (12 p. ) at end. Full bound in navy blue cloth, gilt stamped design, and, red and gilt-stamped lettering on front cover; gilt stamped lettering on spine. read more
Edition: The Garfield ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & brothers, New York
Date Published: 1903
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. 2 v. fronts. (v. 1, port. ) illus., 18 pl., facsim. 21 cm. Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, London
Date Published: 1959
Description: Very Good. [36]p. : ill. (some col. ), ports.; 28 cm. Published in connection with the release of the film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Covertitle: The story of the making of Ben-Hur. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York: and London
Date Published: 1922
Description: Good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Binding tight & pages tanned at edges but clean. water stain on bottom edge of some pages; dj scuffed at edges. 491 p. 22 cm. Book of the Month Club edition read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & brothers, New York: and London
Date Published: 1922
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Nice hard cover, shelf wear & aging to cover, wear to edges of pages, former school copy, light aging to pages, corners bumped & worn, wear to top & bottom of spine, stk #2501n8. 624 p. 22 cm. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1960
Description: Poor. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Flat, solid readers copy. Cover is soiled with some edgewear; Pages are flat and clean with no creases or tears. Binding appears to have been repaired, no pages missing. SYNOPSIS: Pocket Books #GC-75. Galley slave, gladiator, champion of Jesus-This is Judah Ben-Hur who returned from the living death of the Roman galleys to wreak veneance on his enemies. This is the story of his fight for justice, his love for Esther...the man who tried to save Jesus of Nazareth ... read more
Edition: BCE/BOMC
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Description: Fair. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Blue hardcover with dark blue lettering is scuffed on front & worn on edges. Endpapers & page edges tanning otherwise very good with no tears or creases. BCE probably published in the 50s. SYNOPSIS: Novels of Inspiration Series. Galley slave, gladiator, champion of Jesus-This is Judah Ben-Hur who returned from the living death of the Roman galleys to wreak veneance on his enemies. This is the story of his fight for justice, his love for Esther...the man ... read more
"This book took me so long to read, and yet, when I was coming to the end, I was not happy to be finished it. This book has profoundly sat in my memory of BEST BOOKS EVER. And that is something, coming from an Athiest, and this book is, by proxy, about the birth of Jesus and then his life later on, as seen through the eyes of Ben-Hur. I loved the historical aspect of it, and it really gave me so much insight into those times, way more than reading the Bible ever gave me. I could feel the era around me as I read it. I was drawn to the character and the plot around him. I will read this again at some point, and I have never seen the movie, and do not ever plan to, as I think it may taint the feeling I have about this book. Too much pop-culture and '60s acting around it for me to go ruining my thoughts on this epic book."
"This book is great, a treasure. It is a story set in Israel at the time of Christ, so aspects of Jesus' life are incorporated into the book. The first part is a bit slow, the story of the wisemen, but those characters emerge later in the book, so worth the read."
"A Tale of the Christ, just as the title says. It's much different from the movie. The life and mission of Christ are woven into the story. Ben Hur, a Jew, survived three years as a galley slave, and he kept his devotion to his Jewish heritage, even though he was adopted by an influential Roman. He survived a chariot race in which he got revenge over a Roman who had been a childhoood friend, but had later betrayed him. The book depicts the wicked domination of the Romans, and the hope of the Jews that the Messiah would conquer the Romans. Ben Hur hoped that he would be able to build up an army and help his people, and assist Christ in becoming king of the Jews, but he finally realized in the end that Christ was bringing them a spiritual salvation, not a temporal one. This starts off slowly, but you have to be patient and stick with it. It's rewarding."
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