A Tale of the Christ is the sub-title of which 1880 novel by Lew Wallace?
"manuscript of ""Ben-Hur"" in purple ink as a tribute to the Christian season of Lent. He took a leave of absence from his post as New Mexico's territorial governor and traveled to New York City to deliver it to his publisher. On April 20, Wallace personally presented the manuscript to Joseph Henry Harper of Harper and Brothers, who accepted it for publication. At the time of ""Ben-Hur""'s publication, the idea of presenting Christ and the Crucifixion in a fictional novel was a sensitive issue. Wallace's depiction of Christ could have been considered by some as blasphemy, but the quality of"
"Lew Wallace Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, """" (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called ""the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."" Wallace's military career included service in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. He was appointed Indiana's adjutant general and commanded the 11th Indiana Infantry Regiment. Wallace, who attained the rank of major general, participated"
"of their youth in Crawfordsville. General Henry B. Carrington lived in the town after the war, and taught military science at Wabash College. Several other future generals were students at Wabash before the war, including Joseph J. Reynolds, John C. Black (brevet brigadier), Speed S. Fry, Charles Cruft, and William H. Morgan. In 1880, prominent local citizen Lew Wallace produced Crawfordsville's most famous literary work, """", a historical novel dealing with the beginnings of Christianity in the Mediterranean world. In addition to Wallace, Crawfordsville lived up to its nickname ""The Athens of Indiana"" by being the hometown of a number"
"a short quotation from a poem by Zbigniew Herbert. The Vicar of Christ The Vicar of Christ is a bestselling 1979 novel by Walter F. Murphy. The novel tells the life story of the fictional Declan Walsh, who at various stages of his life is a Medal of Honor recipient for actions during the Korean War, Chief Justice of the United States, and finally Pope Francis I (Latin: Franciscus Primus). It uses as a narrative framing device the format of being a transcription of tape recordings of interviews made in preparation for writing a biography of the now-dead 'Papa Francesco'."
"be the most influential is """" by Lew Wallace, and published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880. It remained the best-selling American novel of all time, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852) in sales and remaining at the top of the US all-time bestseller list until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's ""Gone with the Wind"" (1936). ""Ben-Hur"" is a bildungsroman and adventure novel that follows the tumultuous life of its protagonist, Judah Ben-Hur. He is a fictional Jewish noble from Jerusalem who suffers betrayal (by a boyhood friend) and consequently his enslavement and his family's imprisonment"
"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 12th (as noted in a letter to Wallace from Harper dated November 13, 1880). The earliest autographed copy noted bears Wallace's inscription dated November 17, 1880, in the collection of the Indiana Historical Society Library. The first printed review appeared in ""The New York Times"", November 14, 1880, and noted that it is ""printed and in the hands of book dealers."" According to Russo and Sullivan, Mrs."
"The Hippopotamus The Hippopotamus (1994) is a comic novel by Stephen Fry. Written in part as an epistolary novel, it is largely narrated by the main character Edward ""Ted"" Wallace. Wallace is an alcoholic washed-up poet and theatre critic who, having been fired from his newspaper job, accepts a lucrative commission from his terminally ill goddaughter to investigate rumours of miracle healings at Swafford Hall, country mansion of Wallace's old friend Lord Logan. The novel's title comes from the poem of the same name by T. S. Eliot, whose first verse is quoted as the epigraph: The title draws comparisons"
"The Story of the Weasel Published in 1976, The Story of the Weasel is author Carolyn Slaughter's debut novel. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize the following year. Published as Relations in the United States, it has been praised for its 'sensitive treatment of fraternal incest in Victorian England and for its subtle poetic prose'. The frame story is set in 1900 Cirencester as 30-year-old Catherine Roach is writing the story of her childhood in 1880s Wandsworth, when at the age of ten she and her brother Christopher, two years her senior, discover their late father's collection of pornography."
"and written by his daughter Mary Shelley. St. Leon (novel) St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1799) is eighteenth-century British philosopher William Godwin's second novel. Following the success of ""Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams"" (1794), Godwin searched for a topic that would capture his imagination as much as his first novel. ""St. Leon"" is the tale of a French aristocrat, Count Reginald de St. Leon, who loses his wealth gambling and experiences guilt that drives him almost to madness. He accepts, from a dying stranger, the gift of the secret of the elixir"
"The Vicar of Christ The Vicar of Christ is a bestselling 1979 novel by Walter F. Murphy. The novel tells the life story of the fictional Declan Walsh, who at various stages of his life is a Medal of Honor recipient for actions during the Korean War, Chief Justice of the United States, and finally Pope Francis I (Latin: Franciscus Primus). It uses as a narrative framing device the format of being a transcription of tape recordings of interviews made in preparation for writing a biography of the now-dead 'Papa Francesco'. The four interviewees are, in order: Master Gunnery Sergeant"
"Three Tales (Flaubert) Three Tales (""Trois Contes"") is a work by Gustave Flaubert that was originally published in French in 1877. It consists of the short stories ""A Simple Heart"", ""Saint Julian the Hospitalier,"" and ""Hérodias"". ""Dance of Death"" is another story sometimes grouped, instead of ""Hérodias"", with ""Simple Heart"" and ""Saint Julian the Hospitalier"" as ""Three Short Works"". ""A Simple Heart"", or ""Un cœur simple"" or ""Le perroquet"" in French, is a story about a servant girl named Felicité. After her one and only love Théodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicité quits the farm where"
"to anything they saw as blasphemy, and the presence of Jesus Christ in any but serious scholarly and devotional books was taboo. Then Lew Wallace included him in his novel """" less than a decade before Ward published ""Robert Elsmere"". This broke new ground but it was successful only because Wallace portrayed him as the Savior. Had Wallace followed his original purpose to portray Jesus as a mere man, he might have undergone the attacks that were then launched at Ward. ""Robert Elsmere"" generated enormous interest from intellectuals and agnostics who saw it as a liberating tool for liberating times"
"book won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. ""The Hippopotamus"" (1994) is about Edward (Ted/Tedward) Wallace and his stay at his old friend Lord Logan's country manor in Norfolk. ""The Hippopotamus"" was later adapted into a 2017 film. ""The Stars' Tennis Balls"" (2000) is a modern retelling of ""The Count of Monte Cristo"". Fry's book """" is a guide to writing poetry. When writing a book review for ""Tatler"", Fry wrote under a pen name, Williver Hendry, editor of ""A Most Peculiar Friendship: The Correspondence of Lord Alfred Douglas and Jack Dempsey"", a field close to his heart as an"
"of Christianity) to make them ""T""s, (as symbols of Henry Ford's Model T). Margaret Atwood's novel ""The Handmaid's Tale"" takes place in a future United States under a Christian-based theocratic regime. One of the earliest examples of this theme is Robert Hugh Benson's ""Lord of the World"", about a futuristic world where the Freemasons have taken over the world and the only other religion left is a Roman Catholic minority. In the Russian novel ""We"" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, first published in 1921, people are permitted to live out of public view twice a week for one hour and are only"
"in Egypt, A Medley"" (1888), ""Along the Bosphorus, and Other Sketches"" (1898), and ""The City of the King: What the Child Jesus Saw and Heard"" (1903). ""Ginèvra; or, The Old Oak Chest, A Christmas Story"" (1866), which is based on a Samuel Rogers poem, initially appeared in 1884 in the ""New York Independent"". In addition to her own writing, Susan was involved in her husband's literary career. Lew acknowledged Susan's role as his editor, reader, and critic, and attributed much of his success in writing to her literary criticism. Wallace was writing his memoirs when he died in 1905, and"
"The Word (novel) The Word is a 1972 mystery thriller novel by Irving Wallace, which explores the origin of the New Testament of the Bible. The plot of the novel is based around the discovery within Roman ruins of a new gospel written by Jesus' younger brother, James in the first century. In the gospel, many facts of Jesus' life, including the years not mentioned in the Bible, are revealed not to be as factual as they were once thought to be. Steven Randall, a divorced public relations executive running his own company in New York City, is the man"
"The Vicar of Bullhampton The Vicar of Bullhampton is an 1870 novel by Anthony Trollope. It is made up of three intertwining subplots: the courtship of a young woman by two suitors; a feud between the titular Broad church vicar and a Low church nobleman, abetted by a Methodist minister; and the vicar's attempt to rehabilitate a young woman who has gone astray. Trollope expected his depiction of a fallen woman to be controversial, and unusually for him wrote a preface defending it. But the anticipated controversy never materialised, and contemporary reviewers tended to ignore that subplot, focussing instead on"
"first produced in 1835. A short story, 'Ginevra or The Old Oak Chest: A Christmas Story' by Susan E Wallace published in 1887 and another short story ""The Romance of Certain Old Clothes"" by Henry James published in 1868. The song is also played in Thomas Hardy's ""A Laodicean"", after the scene involving the capture of George Somerset's handkerchief from the tower. Kate Mosse reinterpreted the story in her 2013 short story collection ""The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales"". Film versions of the story include a 1904 production by the Clarendon Film Company, directed by Percy Stow; a 1923"
"A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. ""A Christmas Carol"" recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. Dickens wrote ""A Christmas Carol"" during a period when the British were"
"The Pilgrim's Tale The Pilgrim's Tale is an English anti-monastic poem. It was probably written ca. 1536–38, since it makes references to events in 1534 and 1536 – i.e., the Lincolnshire Rebellion – and borrows from The Plowman's Tale and the 1532 text by William Thynne of Chaucer's ""Romaunt of the Rose"", which is cited by page and line. It remains the most mysterious of the pseudo-Chaucerian texts. In his 1602 edition of the ""Works of Chaucer"", Thomas Speght mentions that he hoped to find this elusive text. A prefatory advertisement to the reader in the 1687 edition of the"
"of the best-selling novels of the 1940s and dramatizes the crucifixion of Jesus from the point of view of Marcellus Gallio, the Roman tribune who commands the garrison that carries out the crucifixion of Jesus. Marcellus winds up in custody of Jesus' robe and converts to Christianity because of his experiences interacting with the robe's magical powers. Like ""Ben-Hur"", ""The Robe"" was in 1953 adapted into an Academy Award winning film. In the twentieth century, there began to appear heterodox Bible fiction. Nikos Kazantzakis' ""The Last Temptation of Christ"" (1960), caused a widespread outcry and appeared on many banned book"
"The Vicar of Wakefield The Vicar of Wakefield – subtitled A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself – is a novel by Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774). It was written from 1761 to 1762 and published in 1766. It was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians. Dr. Samuel Johnson, one of Goldsmith's closest friends, told how ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" came to be sold for publication: The novel was ""The Vicar of Wakefield"", and Johnson had sold it to Francis Newbery, a nephew of John. Newbery ""kept it by him for nearly two"
"The Leavenworth Case The Leavenworth Case (1878), subtitled ""A Lawyer's Story"", is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green. Set in New York City, it concerns the murder of a retired merchant, Horatio Leavenworth, in his New York mansion. The popular novel introduced the detective Ebenezer Gryce, and was influential in the development of the detective novel. In her autobiography, Agatha Christie cited it as an influence on her own fiction. Green adapted the novel into a play first performed in 1891. A later revival of the play starred Green's husband Charles Rohlfs. The story"
"of the stories in this collection were adapted as episodes of the third season of ""The Saint"". ""The Impossible Crime"" was retitled ""The Contract"" and first aired on 7 January 1965. ""The National Debt"" was retitled ""The Crime of the Century"" and first aired on 4 March 1965. Alias the Saint Alias the Saint is a collection of three mystery novellas by Leslie Charteris, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1931 by Hodder and Stoughton. This was the sixth book to feature the adventures of Simon Templar, also known as ""The Saint"". The three stories had previously been"
"double homage: first to Dashiell Hammett (""Miles Archer"" was the name of Sam Spade's murdered partner in ""The Maltese Falcon"" ), while Lew Wallace was the author of the novel """" (1880). ""The Galton Case"" is the eighth novel in the Lew Archer detective series written by Ross Macdonald and published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1959. The lead character is hired to find the Galton fortune's lost heir. Archer finds a series of murders, web of secrets and deception. From the back of the 1983 Bantam edition: Rich boy Anthony Galton had dropped out of sight more than"
"from the Palace of the Governors. When New Mexico was annexed as a U.S. territory, the Palace became New Mexico's first territorial capitol. Lew Wallace wrote the final parts of his book """" in this building while serving as territorial governor in the late 1870s. He remembered later in life that it was at night, during a severe thunderstorm in the spring of 1879, after returning from a tense meeting with Billy the Kid in Lincoln County, when he wrote the climactic Crucifixion scenes of the novel. Wallace worked by the light of a shaded lamp in the shuttered governor's"
"An American Christmas Carol An American Christmas Carol is a 1979 American made-for-television fantasy drama film directed by Eric Till and based on Charles Dickens' 1843 novel a ""A Christmas Carol"". In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of"
"a modern idyl; he appears, like Melchizedek, as priest and king in one person.” ""The Autobiography of Johann Goethe"", p. 368ff Silent film adaptations of the novel were produced in 1910, in 1913, and in 1916. (plain text and HTML) The Vicar of Wakefield The Vicar of Wakefield – subtitled A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself – is a novel by Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774). It was written from 1761 to 1762 and published in 1766. It was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians. Dr. Samuel Johnson, one of Goldsmith's closest"
"the faith to the masses. A struggle for control of the World Council of Churches, the suspicious absence in the project of archeologist Prof. Agusto Monti, the original discoverer – and whose daughter Angela is a potential love interest for Steve –, and the potential notion that the newly discovered gospel itself is a forgery made in the 20th century instead of a legitimate historical document, all are guaranteed to make Steve question the worth of the new job he's undertaking, and the newly re-found faith in God he acquired along with it. Wallace touches on several topics related to"
"Susan Wallace Susan Arnold Elston Wallace (December 25, 1830 – October 1, 1907) was an American author and poet from Crawfordsville, Indiana. In addition to writing travel articles for several American magazines and newspapers, Wallace published six books, five of which contain collected essays from her travels in the New Mexico Territory, Europe, and the Middle East in the 1880s: ""The Land of the Pueblos"" (1888), ""The Storied Sea"" (1883), ""The Repose in Egypt: A Medley"" (1888), ""Along the Bosphorus, and Other Sketches"" (1898), and ""The City of the King: What the Child Jesus Saw and Heard"" (1903). She was"
"Son of the Morning (novel) Son of the Morning is a 1978 novel by American author Joyce Carol Oates. The book was first published on August 1, 1978 through Vanguard Press. Elsa Vickery, daughter of agnostic small town doctor and his pious wife, is gang-raped at the age of seventeen. Her father cannot obtain legal abortion. The boy Nathan is brought up by his grandmother as a devoted Christian. At the age of seven he begins to experience visions of Christ. When the boy is eight, his grandfather reads the Gospel for the first time in thirty years and is"
"of his treasure. However, in this story the Christian lover flees alone with the treasure. Writing two decades later, James L. Wilson finds a better parallel in ""The Sultan of Babylon"", an English story rooted in The Matter of France and the ""chanson de geste"" ""The Song of Roland"". Here Laban—the Sultan of Babylon, a Saracen ruler—captures the Christian knights Oliver and Roland and intends to execute them. His daughter, Floripas, proceeds to murder her governess for refusing to help feed the prisoners; bashes the jailer's head in with his keychain when he refuses to let her see the prisoners;"
"Schmink, the Collection Manager at the Indiana War Museum, who, when asked by team officials for ideas on a team name connected to Indiana history, suggested ""the Eleventh"" in honor of the regiment that valiantly fought under the initial direction of Colonel Lew Wallace. They use Wallace's image on various merchandise. Fiction Non-Fiction Lew Wallace Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, """""