by Lewis Wallace · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435702584
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«Ben-Hur (I)» is the historical novel by Lewis Wallace, published by Códice, Madrid in paperback (298 pages, in Spanish).
The young Jewish nobleman Judah Ben-Hur sees his life collapse when he is unjustly accused of attacking a Roman tribune. Separated from his family and condemned to row in galleys, chance places him under the protection of Quintus Arrius, a Roman who adopts him. When he returns to Judea, his desire for revenge crosses paths with his reunion with Messala and with the figure of Jesus.
This Spanish edition was published in 1995.
Lewis Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, artist, inventor, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."
