Lord of the World

The End is coming.

In a post-religious world - peaceful, humane and ordered - the last few Christians turn from their faith and sink, thankfully, into the safety of the new state. Only a few can see the danger; the growing shadow of a man who will sweep everything before him in the name of peace and the triumph of humanity against superstition.

Fr Percy Franklin has lost so many to the new consensus - brother clerics as well as faithful Catholics - that he almost loses hope. Only prayer, the dying plea of a woman who wants to come home, and the emptiness of the world taking form give him the conviction to stay the course against the Antichrist. Even to the End of Days.

In a dystopian novel written over a century ago Fr. Robert H. Benson charts the collision course of faith and secularism with prophetic force. Asking the questions that haunted his era and ours: What will we give up for peace? Who will we trust? What is the price of a soul?

This Anastasia Press edition has been fully re-typeset for easy reading and includes minimal footnotes. New black and white illustrations are included to mark the major divisions.

Pages: 270

Illustrations (not available in Kindle or ePub): 5

Paperback ISBN: 9798296968722

Hardback ISBN: 9798296983367