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Lord of the World
Lord of the World
Author: Robert Hugh Benson
Lord of the World. Beautifully re-typeset with all Latin passages newly translated in notes. One of Pope Francis's favorite novels, Benson's 1907 apocalyptic tale of the Antichrist is one of the first modern dystopias. Humanism has eliminated world conflict but practices a subtle barbarism upon the human mind. Religion is either suppressed or ig...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781507790502
ISBN-10: 1507790503
Publication Date: 2/23/2015
Pages: 318
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Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Type: Paperback
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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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