![]() ![]() The daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis read it aloud to her father, with the two of them staying up all night to finish the story. One result was another novel, The Prince of India: Or Why Constantinople Fell. ambassador to Turkey and told him to write more books. President James Garfield was so impressed with the story that he read portions between meetings and then woke up at 5:30 a.m. Grant stayed up for 30-straight hours because he couldn’t put the book down. ![]() As they reconnected as young adults in Jerusalem at the time of Christ, Messala turned into the Roman oppressor against Ben-Hur and his family, and the conflict rolls toward the famous life-and-death chariot race between the two men in Rome.Įxcept for the Bible, the book sold better than anything else in that era, including Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Judah Ben-Hur and Messala, the Roman, had been childhood friends, with the orphaned Messala growing up in the Ben-Hur home. David Wallace and a lawyer aspiring to be novelist, wanted to write a story about Jesus Christ from a different angle than the Gospels of the Bible. The best-seller of the 19th century was written by former Union Civil War Gen. ![]() What’s less known is the blockbuster nature of the 1880 book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. ![]() A new movie version hit theaters today, capitalizing on the 1959 blockbuster film that won a record-setting 11 Academy Awards. The Ben-Hur story never seems to go out of fashion. ![]()
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