Daniel Kleven’s Reviews > Ben Hur > Status Update

I'm abandoning this edition of the book (Wordsworth Classics, 1996), as I've discovered that it is severely abridged (like, entire chapters, as well as paragraphs, cut from the book). There was nothing in the book description, nor the preface to indicate this, which is disappointing. I'm switching to the Signet Classics edition, which appears to preserve all of the original book intact.

I LOVE this book

Wallace was born in 1827 in Indiana; became a Union general in the Civil War; served on the military commission for the trials of the Lincoln assassination conspirators; also the trial of Henry Wirz, Confederate commandant of the Andersonville prison camp; was governor of New Mexico; served as U.S. minister to the Ottoman Empire.

Oh, and he also wrote "the most influential Christian book of the 19th century."