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Lord of the World
Contributor(s): Benson, Robert Hugh (Author), Vance, Simon (Read by)
ISBN: 1538429446     ISBN-13: 9781538429440
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $26.96  
Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats
Published: September 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Dystopian
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Fantasy - General
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 6.8" (0.30 lbs)
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Publisher Description:
Secular humanism has triumphed. Everything the late Victorians and Edwardians believed would bring human happiness has been achieved: technology has made it so no one need work for a living, the social sciences ensure a smooth-running social order, and in the name of tolerance, religious beliefs have been uprooted and eliminated except for a single holdout: a largely discredited and rapidly shrinking Catholic Church. Yet people are unhappy.What has been created is a sterile world of crass materialism, a world without spiritual dimension, a world where people daily choose legalized euthanasia over the emptiness of existence. Out of this culture of despair, there arises a charismatic leader: Julian Felsenburgh. Soon the masses are in Felsenburgh's thrall and he becomes leader of the world. But in their eagerness for change, have the citizens of the world have embraced the Antichrist and hastened the end of days?Father Percy Franklin remains a bastion of stability, even as the Catholic Church disintegrates around him. Finally outlawed and driven underground, it is only this small and shrinking Church that stands against the "Lord of the World."

Contributor Bio(s): Benson, Robert Hugh: -

Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) was ordained as an Anglican priest by his father, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Benson later joined the Church of Rome and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1904. He continued his writing career in addition to his ministry, publishing several ghost and horror stories. The dystopian novel Lord of the World is his best-known work.