![]() Escaping, Ben-Hur returns as a Roman officer, and enters the chariot race in which Messala has wagered heavily upon himself. He is sent to the galleys for life, and his mother and sister are imprisoned. ![]() Against the background of the life of Jesus is told the story of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish patrician youth wrongly accused by his former friend Messala of attempting to kill the Roman governor of Judea. Thereafter he returned to Indiana to practice law and to write - first in 1873 with THE FAIR GOD (regarding the Spanish conquest of Mexico), and then with BEN-HUR. ![]() Lew Wallace, a Hoosier, was a prominent military man in the Mexican War and in the Civil War, during which he rose to the rank of major general. First Edition of one of the American bestsellers of the Nineteenth Century. Original light blue-grey cloth florally decorated in red, light blue, green and black. ![]()
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