Author:Lew Wallace

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Lew Wallace (1827–1905)

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Lew Wallace

Works

• The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico (1873) [1]
• Commodus: An Historical Play (1876)
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) [2]
• The Boyhood of Christ (1888) [3]
• Life of Gen. Ben Harrison (1888)
• The Prince of India; or, Why Constantinople Fell (1893)
• The Wooing of Malkatoon and Commodus (1898)
• Lew Wallace: An Autobiography (1906)

Works about Wallace

• “Wallace, Lewis” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Wallace, Lewis” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Wallace, Lew” in The Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York, 1918.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.