Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Complete and Unabridged

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On April 5, 1898, at the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, Wallace, at age seventy-one, offered to raise and lead a force of soldiers, but the war office refused. Undeterred, he went to a local recruiting office and attempted to enlist as a private, but was rejected again, presumably because of his age. [145] The writer of Ben Hur has written several novels and biographies. But Lewis was best known for his historical adventure story, Ben Hur. This novel became the bestselling novel at that time. Since its first publication, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ has never been out of print. It outsold every book except the Bible until Gone With the Wind came out in 1936, and resurged to the top of the list again in the 1960s. By 1900 it had been printed in thirty-six English-language editions and translated into twenty others, including Indonesian and Braille.

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac John Swansburg (2013-03-26). "The Passion of Lew Wallace". Slate . Retrieved March 30, 2013. In 1900, Ben-Hur became the best-selling American novel of the 19th century, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. [133] [134] Amy Lifson, an editor for Humanities, identified it as the most influential Christian book of the 19th century. [1] Others named it one of the best-selling novels of all time. [132] At the time of Ben-Hur's one hundredth anniversary in 1980, it had "never been out of print" [135] and had been adapted for the stage and several motion pictures. [1] [136] One historian, Victor Davis Hanson, has argued that Ben-Hur drew from Wallace's life, particularly his experiences at Shiloh, and the damage it did to his reputation. The book's main character, Judah Ben-Hur, accidentally causes injury to a high-ranking Roman commander, for which he and his family suffer tribulations and calumny. [137] The original manuscript of Ben=Hur is held at the Lilly Library, Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. See "Lilly Library Manuscripts Collection: Wallace Mss. II". Indiana University . Retrieved 2014-10-02.

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Coming home, he found himself dissatisfied with his early careers as a soldier, politician, and lawyer (the last he described as “that most detestable of occupations”) and began writing in earnest again. He had his first novel, The Fair God, published in 1873. A tale about the conquest of the Aztec Empire by the Spanish, its inspiration came from Wallace’s reading of William Prescott’s Conquest of Mexico and from his own experiences there. In response to calls from Ohio's Governor Tod, approximately 15,000 so-called "Squirrel Hunters"—untrained volunteers who carried outdated equipment—reported to Cincinnati. Additionally, newly-created regiments from Indiana and Ohio were rushed to Cincinnati; most had not completed their training. Swansburg, John (2013-03-26). "The Passion of Lew Wallace". The Slate Group . Retrieved 2014-10-01. Lewis "Lew" Wallace was born on April 10, 1827, in Brookville, Indiana. He was the second of four sons born to Esther French Wallace (née Test) and David Wallace. [2] Lew's father, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, [3] left the military in 1822 and moved to Brookville, where he established a law practice and entered Indiana politics. David served in the Indiana General Assembly and later as the state's lieutenant governor, and governor, and as a member of Congress. [4] [5] Lew Wallace's maternal grandfather was circuit court judge and Congressman John Test. Israeli academic Nitsa Ben-Ari discusses the complex socio-political context of these translations and changes. See Nitsa Ben-Ari (2002). " The Double Conversion of Ben-Hur: A Case of Manipulative Translation" (PDF). Tel Aviv University . Retrieved 2014-10-01.Wallace wrote subsequent novels and biographies, but Ben-Hur remained his most important work. Wallace considered The Prince of India; or, Why Constantinople Fell (1893) as his best novel. [138] He also wrote a biography of President Benjamin Harrison, a fellow Hoosier and Civil War general, and The Wooing of Malkatoon (1898), a narrative poem. Wallace was writing his autobiography when he died in 1905. His wife Susan completed it with the assistance of Mary Hannah Krout, another author from Crawfordsville. It was published posthumously in 1906. [139] Later years [ edit ] Lew Wallace in 1903 Wallace, An Autobiography, p. 930. Wallace's article "How I Came to Write Ben-Hur" appeared in the February 2, 1893, issue of The Youths Companion and was included as part of his autobiography.