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Lord of the World
Lord of the World
Author: Robert Hugh Benson
Lord of the World is a 1907 apocalyptic novel by Robert Hugh Benson. It is sometimes deemed one of the first modern dystopias. Michael D. O'Brien's Catholic apocalyptic series, Children of the Last Days follows a very similar theme as well. Essentially the novel imagines a socialist and humanist world where religion has been either suppressed or...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781484127063
ISBN-10: 1484127064
Publication Date: 4/15/2013
Pages: 188
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A powerful and disturbing book: written from a Catholic point of view in 1906, it anticipates (eerily) much of what is happening today, including the rise of humanistic materialism to supplant true faith and the persecution of those who practice it; as if H.G. Wells had undergone a conversion to the one true faith.


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