Bibliograph

The fair god, or, The last of the 'tzins, a tale of the conquest of Mexico, Lew Wallace

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The fair god, or, The last of the 'tzins, a tale of the conquest of Mexico, Lew Wallace

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The fair god, or, The last of the 'tzins

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Lew Wallace

Sub title

a tale of the conquest of Mexico

Summary

The man who would go on to write Ben-Hur, the best-selling novel of the 19th century, began his literary career with The Fair God, an adventurous and romantic chronicle of the invasion of the Aztec empire by the Spaniards. Inspired in part by his service in the Mexican War and later by his government service in Mexico, Wallace developed and refined the novel over the course of a quarter century

Target audience

adult

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Fair godLast of the 'tzins

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