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Lord of the world / Robert Hugh Benson ; introduction by Ralph McInerny.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benson, Robert Hugh, 1871-1914.
- Series:
- Catholic writers series
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 301 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- South Bend, Ind. : St. Augustine's Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- In this profound and prescient novel, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson gives us an imaginative foretelling of the end of the world. All stories, Aristotle said, have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but most ends are relative, the terminus of this chain of acts or that. But what of the end that terminates all human action as we know it, the end of time itself, the Second Coming? Since this novel appeared in 1906, many others have been devoted to nuclear disaster, destructive comets, and other hair-raising possibilities. What sets Benson's story apart and makes it as readable today as when it was written is the Catholic and biblical context that provides the ultimate meaning.
- ISBN:
- 1890318388
- OCLC:
- 42428653
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