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    Lord of the World
    Lord of the World
    Lord of the World
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    Lord of the World

    By Robert Hugh Benson

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateFeb 1, 1975
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    Robert Hugh Benson

    Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) was an English Anglican priest who joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1903 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1904. He was lauded in his own day as one of the leading figures in English literature and was the author of many novels and apologetic works.

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    • 3/5
      Lord of the World. Robert Hugh Benson. 1907. This is one of the first books I downloaded when I got my first Kindle, but I didn’t get around to reading it until my book decided to read it. It needs to be read along with Brave New World. and 1984. It is just as sobering and frightening. The world has been divided into regions and a charismatic leader arises who will get all the regions to agree to quit fighting. The Catholic Church is the only thing standing in the way of eternal world peace where man is god. So it must be destroyed. This is not a great novel but it is a novel view of the future that contains enough truth to be scary.
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      Written at the turn of the nineteenth century about our days by the son of the Arch Bishop of Canterburywho converted to Catholicism and became a Catholic priest

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