by Lewis Wallace · ANAYA INFANTIL Y JUVENIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420739526
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«Ben-Hur» is Lewis Wallace's historical novel for young readers, published by Anaya Infantil y Juvenil in paperback (672 pages, in Spanish).
Judah Ben-Hur, a young Jew from a wealthy family, falls into disgrace through the enmity of the Roman Messala. Condemned to the galleys, he survives and is adopted by a Roman nobleman. He returns to the East, faces Messala in a chariot race, and continues to Jerusalem, where he awaits the coming of the Messiah.
The original work was published in 1880; this Anaya edition is part of the Tus Libros collection and includes illustrations by William Martin Johnson.
The publisher recommends it for readers aged 12 and up, within a collection aimed at young readers.
Lewis Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, artist, inventor, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."
