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

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This is the dystopian novel that Pope Francis has twice urged Catholics to read (in 2013 and again in 2015), calling it "prophetic." Before Huxley, before Orwell, and long before Fahrenheit 451, A Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner, and The Hunger Games, Robert Hugh Benson wrote a story of the coming of the Anti-Christ that today is considered one of the first modern dystopian novels. Lord of the World, published in 1907, presents a world controlled by Freemasonry, with only a small Catholic minority bravely opposing them. Benson’s portrayal of the Freemasons as dominated by Marxism and Humanism made the novel a counterpoint to the socialist-themed dystopias written at the same time by H. G. Wells (The Sleeper Awakes) and Jack London (The Iron Heel). Introduced and edited by Luke Hartwell.

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Release dateJan 27, 2015
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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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    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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    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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