Lord of The World: Titan Illustrated Classics

Lord of the World is a book by Robert Hugh Benson. The book centers on the reign of the Anti-Christ and the End of the World. It is meant as an inversion of the popular and futuristic novels of H. G. Wells. The book has been praised by, among others, Pope Francis as being prophetic.

About the Author

Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), enjoyed a celebrated and prolific career that lasted little over a decade. In addition to a great many non-fiction works, he authored a series of twenty novels and short story collections that combined a specific moral orientation with an astonishing popularity among the general public of the early twentieth century. As an Anglican and later a Catholic priest, Father Benson was in great demand as a speaker in both England and the United States. The most sensational English convert from the Anglican Communion to Catholicism since John Henry Newman, "Hugh," as his friends and family called him, was a son of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Benson wrote from a Catholic perspective, but with real understanding and sympathy for the Protestant position.

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