Synopsis
A prescient dystopia confronts faith, power, and the peril of utopian peace.
Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson, originally published in 1907, envisions a future convulsed by ideology and disillusion. As a charismatic world leader rises, priest Percy Franklin and politician Oliver Brand face choices that test conviction and conscience.
Readers encounter airships, state ritual, and underground believers in tense, unadorned scenes. Themes of conscience, loyalty, and ultimate hope drive this early dystopian novel without modern sensationalism. It offers a sober strand of apocalyptic fiction that invites reflection as much as suspense.
A formative classic of speculative faith and politics, it rewards thoughtful dystopia readers.
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Review
"Though it precedes them, the book is the genre of Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty Four' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'." --The Catholic Times, 20 January, 2002
About the Author
Robert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS (18 November 1871 – 19 October 1914) was an English Anglican priest who in 1903 was received into the Roman Catholic Church in which he was ordained priest in 1904. He wrote the notable novel Lord of the World (1907).
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