Historical novel depicting the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in Mexico.
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Lew Wallace was born on April 10th 1827 in Brookville, Indiana. His career began as a lawyer before entering the military and rising to the rank of General. Thereafter he was the Governor of the New Mexico Territory, a politician, a diplomat, and most famously to us as a writer. He is best known for his epic historical adventure ‘Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ’ (1880). This blockbuster of a novel has been called the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century and often cited as the ...