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“My God, did I set all of this in motion?”
–Lew Wallace
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace was published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880.
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Wallace had been researching and writing the novel for seven years. He did most of his work underneath a beech tree near his residence in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
The novel grew in such popularity during Wallace’s lifetime that it was adapted into a stage play in 1899.
That dramatization was followed by the motion picture productions in 1907, 1925, 1959, and 2016. Ben-Hur has also been adapted into several cartoons and a musical.
Ben-Hur‘s impact on American culture is larger than the dramatic adaptations alone.
The Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur, a national fraternal organization founded upon Ben-Hur, later reformed into Ben-Hur Life Insurance. There have even been American towns named after Ben-Hur.
“It seems now that when I sit down finally in the old man’s
