Robert Hugh Benson ~6 hr read

As a godless, unified world embraces a charismatic new leader hailed as the savior of humanity, a lone Catholic priest perceives the coming of Antichrist and the end of days.

Robert Hugh Benson's 1907 'Lord of the World' is a powerful, prophetic dystopian novel of secular utopia and apocalypse. Dark, gripping, hugely influential. Read it for a haunting vision of a world that abolishes God and welcomes its own doom, one of the great religious dystopias.

In its time

Published in 1907, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).