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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 ...
When Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ first appeared in 1880, it was bound in a cadet blue-gray cloth with floral decorations on the front cover, spine, and back cover. It was copyrighted October 12, 1880, and published November 12 (as noted in a letter to Wallace from Harper dated November 13, 1880).
Wallace registered in the British Army under the name Edgar Wallace, after the author of Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace. [6] [7] [10] At the time the medical records register him as having a 33-inch chest and being stunted from his childhood spent in the slums. [10] He was posted to South Africa with the West Kent Regiment, in 1896. [7]
Judah Ben-Hur, shortened to Ben-Hur, is a fictional character, the title character and protagonist from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.The book covers the character's adventures and struggle against the Roman Empire as he tries to restore honor to his family's name after being falsely accused of attacking the Roman governor.
Lew Wallace is most famous for his military service and his novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880). He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, participating in the Battle of Fort Donelson, Battle of Shiloh, and Battle of Monocacy as well as managing operations for the Union Army in Indiana in July 1863 when Confederate general John Hunt Morgan invaded the state during ...
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace; famously made into a film starring Charlton Heston; set in the reign of Tiberius in Judaea, the Mediterranean, and Rome. Epilogues carry the story into the reign of Nero
Ben-Hur Museum, renamed the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum; Club Sportivo Ben Hur, a sports club in Argentina; Ben Hur (automobile), an early car; Ben Hur trailer, a nickname for the World War II G-518 one-ton U.S. Army trailer; Tribe of Ben-Hur, an authorized fraternal order based on the book, later an insurance company
At the time, Wallace, who would become better known as the author of Ben-Hur, was in command of the Union's Middle Department and VIII Corps, based in Baltimore. [6] Few of Wallace's men had battle experience. [7]