Robert Hugh Benson

Lord of the World

Dystopian novel depicting a future world dominated by secular materialism

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Robert Hugh Benson
Robert Hugh Benson

R. H. Benson, son of Archbishop Benson and brother of E. F. and A. C. Benson, was a prolific Catholic novelist whose fiction dramatised religious conversion and historical persecution. His dystopian Lord of the World remains striking.

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