BenHur

The first thing I want to address is the “speed” of this book. I first read this book in the fall or winter of 1971, and at that time, as a high school senior, I was well-accustomed to reading Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, and all those other authors of the Victorian era (and before!) B......more

کتاب بن هور نوشته لیووالاس داستان و روایتی هالیوودی ایست ازظهور مسیح تا مصلوب شدن او . در حقیقت قهرمان کتاب بن هور است و برخوردهای او با عیسی ناصری سیمای مسیح را مجسم می کند . کتاب خط داستانی جذابی دارد ، دوستان دوران کودکی که پس از بزرگ شدن به خاطر مذهب و نژاد دچار اختلاف می شوند ،مسالا شاهزاده......more

"Out of that vast tomb Christianity issued to supersede the Caesars." Ben Hur is one of those classic works better recognised for its many adaptations. To this end it seems fair to compare it to another highly similar work - Les Miserables. Both are classic historical fiction works which use hist......more

Historical fiction as a genre was first developed by the writers of the Romantic school, which arose around the end of the 18th century; the Romantics were drawn by the exoticism of historical settings and the drama of epochal events, and even of daily life in a time was life was wilder and more dan......more