Ben Hur

By General Lew Wallace

"I came here for vengeance on Messala... Then I will use every skill I have to drive the Romans from my country forever!"

They were boyhood friends who shared a love for learning and a passion to be soldiers. But before many years would pass, Judah Ben-Hur, a Prince of the Jews, and Messala, the Roman nobleman and soldier, would also share a deep hatred for what the other had become.