Fils d'un prince de Jérusalem, Ben Hur blesse par accident le gouverneur Valerius Gratius et est injustement condamné aux galères. Il n'a alors plus qu'un but : délivrer son pays du joug romain... Texte abrégé.

Ben-Hur

En ce temps-l�, Rome r�gnait sur le monde, et les peuples conquis, de la Gaule � la Gr�ce, de Carthage, � l'Egypte, avaient oubli� jusqu'aux noms glorieux de leurs anc�tres.Seul, un petit Etat ne courbait pas la t�te (ses habitants seraient un jour appel�s le ""peuple � la nuque raide"").La Jud�e, car c'�tait son nom antique, �tait un fragment de l'ancien royaume juif conquis et morcel� par les Romains. Chacun, � sa fa�on, y luttait contre le Romain, les uns plong�s dans l'�tude de la Loi, les autres sur les traces d'un proph�te juif, nomm� J�sus, descendant de David, qui passait pour le Messie tant attendu.C'est dans ce climat de passion et de ferveur que le prince Judas, de l'illustre famille des Hur, va voir son destin boulevers�.N� dans cette aristocratie juive que l'empereur Auguste m�nageait, il va n�anmoins se trouver plong� dans un univers de souffrances et de violences.Devenu gal�rien, il sauvera la vie d'un noble romain qui l'adopte. D�s lors, il consacrera sa vie � retrouver les siens, et � tirer vengeance de son ancien ami, le Romain Messala.De courses de chars en combats, d'errances en aventures, il rencontrera sur son chemin l'amour et la r�v�lation divine.Ce chef-d' oeuvre de la litt�rature romanesque, rendu c�l�bre par d'innombrables adaptations, est ici pr�sent� pour la premi�re fois au public francophone dans sa version int�grale.

En ce temps-là, Rome régnait sur le monde, et les peuples conquis, de la Gaule à la Grèce, de Carthage ,à l'Egypte, avaient oublié jusqu'aux noms glorieux de leurs ancêtres. Seul, un petit Etat ne courbait pas la tête (ses habitants seraient un jour appelés le "peuple à la nuque raide"). La Judée, car c'était son nom antique, était un fragment de l'ancien royaume juif conquis et morcelé par les Romains. Chacun, à sa façon, y luttait contre le Romain, les uns plongés dans l'étude de la Loi, les autres sur les traces d'un prophète juif, nommé Jésus, descendant de David, qui passait pour le Messie tant attendu. C'est dans ce climat de passion et de ferveur que le prince Judas, de l'illustre famille des Hur, va voir son destin bouleversé. Né dans cette aristocratie juive que l'empereur Auguste ménageait, il va néanmoins se trouver plongé dans un univers de souffrances et de violences. Devenu galérien, il sauvera la vie d'un noble romain qui l'adopte. Dès lors, il consacrera sa vie à retrouver les siens, et à tirer vengeance de son ancien ami, le Romain Messala. De courses de chars en combats, d'errances en aventurés, il rencontrera sur son chemin l'amour et la révélation divine.

In first century Judaea, Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur is betrayed by his childhood friend Messala and sentenced to life as a Roman slave. When, during a pirate attack in the Aegean, Ben-Hur saves the life of a galley commander, his fortunes improve and he returns to Galilee a free man. There, his quest for vengeance turns into insurrection, but his life is transformed when he witnesses Christ's baptism by John the Baptist. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the best-selling novel of revenge and redemption, has been enormously popular since its publication in 1880. Ben-Hur has been translated into multiple languages, and adapted for radio, the stage, and television numerous times. The 1959 MGM movie starring Charlton Heston won eleven Academy Awards, a record it shares with Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Ben-Hur - A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular and beloved 19th century American novels. This faithful New Testament tale combines the events of the life of Jesus with grand historical spectacle in the exciting story of Judah of the House of Hur, a man who finds extraordinary redemption for himself and his family.A classic of faith, fortitude, and inspiration.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a likeness to a caterpillar crawling from the south to the north. Standing on its red-and-white cliffs, and looking off under the path of the rising sun, one sees only the Desert of Arabia, where the east winds, so hateful to vinegrowers of Jericho, have kept their playgrounds since the beginning. Its feet are well covered by sands tossed from the Euphrates, there to lie, for the mountain is a wall to the pasture-lands of Moab and Ammon on the west--lands which else had been of the desert a part.

The Arab has impressed his language upon everything south and east of Judea, so, in his tongue, the old Jebel is the parent of numberless wadies which, intersecting the Roman road--now a dim suggestion of what once it was, a dusty path for Syrian pilgrims to and from Mecca--run their furrows, deepening as they go, to pass the torrents of the rainy season into the Jordan, or their last receptacle, the Dead Sea. Out of one of these wadies--or, more particularly, out of that one which rises at the extreme end of the Jebel, and, extending east of north, becomes at length the bed of the Jabbok River--a traveller passed, going to the table-lands of the desert. To this person the attention of the reader is first besought.

Judged by his appearance, he was quite forty-five years old. His beard, once of the deepest black, flowing broadly over his breast, was streaked with white. His face was brown as a parched coffee-berry, and so hidden by a red kufiyeh (as the kerchief of the head is at this day called by the children of the desert) as to be but in part visible. Now and then he raised his eyes, and they were large and dark. He was clad in the flowing garments so universal in the East; but their style may not be described more particularly, for he sat under a miniature tent, and rode a great white dromedary.

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