We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. During the Civil War he served in the Union forces with such distinction that he was. He became a lawyer but left his practice to serve in the Mexican War in 1846. Ben-Hur is a novel by Lew Wallace, and considered the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century.It became a best-selling American. Author: Lew Wallace Publisher: Dean & Son Ltd. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Īs a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Lewis Wallace (1827-1905) was an American military leader and popular author, remembered especially for the novel Ben-Hur. The dust jacket has some minor damage and there is a very small tear in the free endpaper.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. 25.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. And we're leaving out some key books like The Lord of the Rings and The Count of Monte Cristo-the former because its original serialization makes it difficult to quantify, and the latter because its age makes it difficult to find reliable sources.ĭid your favorites make the list? How well do you think that the quality matches up with the quantity sold? Let us know in the comments. That means religious texts, self-help guides, political tools, and other reference texts are out-the Bible and Mao Tse Tung's Little Red Book would both be in the Top 25. So here is what we came up with, with a few self-imposed rules: Ben Harrison and tried his pen with poetry and play-writing, before writing his.

His other novels were The Fair God and The Prince of India. There are too many variables-too many known unknowns-that make it difficult to create something definitive. His most famous was Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the best-selling novel of the 19th century. Combine this with inaccurate record-keeping, and publishers who exaggerate their sales as a means of promotion, and we have no way of determining exact counts, let alone with enough accuracy to make an indisputable list.

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