Ben Hur
byLew Wallace
CompletedHistorical,DramaPublic domain
Public-domain text, with thanks to Standard Ebooks and other free-text projects.
Judah and Massala are close friends growing up, though one is Jewish and the other Roman. But when an accident happens after Massala returns from five years in Rome, Massala betrays his childhood friend and family. Judah’s mother and sister are taken away to prison, and he is sent to a galley-ship.