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Il padrone del mondo (Lord of the World), tradotto anche come Padrone del mondo e Il dominatore del mondo, è un romanzo di fantascienza distopica di Robert Hugh Benson, pubblicato nel 1907. Narra di un mondo attorno all'anno 2000, governato in pace da tre grandi potenze a carattere liberale , socialista e massonico , in cui i ...
- Il dominatore del mondo, Padrone del mondo
- 1907
- Lord of the World
- Robert Hugh Benson
Robert Hugh Benson has 276 books on Goodreads with 21233 ratings. Robert Hugh Benson’s most popular book is Lord of the World.
e. Robert Hugh Monsignor Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS (18 November 1871 – 19 October 1914) was an English Catholic priest and writer. First an Anglican priest, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1903 and ordained therein the next year.
Robert Hugh Benson ( Wellington College, 18 novembre 1871 – Salford, 19 ottobre 1914) è stato uno scrittore e presbitero inglese . Sacerdote anglicano, dopo una sofferta conversione nel 1903 fu accolto nella Chiesa cattolica, nella quale fu ordinato sacerdote nel 1904. Prolifico autore di narrativa, scrisse numerose opere tra le quali ...
Born in 1871, Benson was the youngest son of E.W. Benson, a distinguished Anglican clergyman who counted the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, amongst his friends. In 1882, when Benson was eleven-years-old, his father became Archbishop of Canterbury. Having taken Anglican orders himself, it was Benson who read the litany at his father's ...
Robert Hugh Benson kept a daybook, a surprising document, covering his Roman months.19 This small volume provides precious insight into Hugh’s mind during his first days in the Church. Rather than yielding the story of a spiritual journey or some wrenching adaptation to a different religious culture, however, the daybook documents a whirlwind social calendar.
Most readers of his books would probably be of the opinion that Hugh Benson's peculiar gifts as a writer were displayed to best advantage in works of pure fiction. When chained down to definite facts in history, his imaginative powers were not given full scope; but he revelled in analysis of character, and was seen at his very best in the creations of his own vivid imagination.
