A Jewish prince betrayed into slavery seeks revenge on his Roman friend and crosses paths with Christ.
Books mentioned in Ben-Hur (7)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron: “Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire Of aught but rest." Childe Harold.”
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare: “Diomedes. His death's upon him, but not dead." Antony and Cleopatra (act iv., sc. xiii.).”
Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller: “Whose consciences may calmly wait their right." Schiller, Don Carlos (act iv., sc. xv.)”
Endymion by John Keats: “I bow'd a tranced vassal."--KEATS, Endymion.”
The Ramayana by Valmiki: “therein also are the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, heroic poems, designed for the perpetuation of our gods and demi-gods.”
Mahabharata: “therein also are the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, heroic poems, designed for the perpetuation of our gods and demi-gods.”
Talmud: “"These four are accounted as dead--the blind, the leper, the poor, and the childless." Thus the Talmud.”
Books that mention Ben-Hur (5)
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery: “I was reading it at dinner-hour, and I had just got to the chariot-race when school went in.”
Free Air by Sinclair Lewis: “his entire library ... consisting of Ivanhoe, Ben-Hur, his father's copy of Byron”
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut: “The man who wrote Ben Hur was a Hoosier.”
The White Album by Joan Didion: “Novarro's career as a silent film actor until he was shown, at some point during the night of the murder, a photograph of his host as Ben-Hur.”
Grant by Ron Chernow: “He had worked as a lawyer in Indiana and served in the state legislature; in after years he would distinguish himself as the author of Ben-Hur.”