Robert Hugh Benson · 1907
A speculative novel depicting the rise of a global figure who embodies the Antichrist.
Peter Thiel considers it one of the best fictional accounts of the Antichrist.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“The two best fictional ones in my mind were pre-World War I. There was a 1908 Robert Hugh Benson, sort of a Catholic book, Lord of the World.”
Why: They are the two best fictional accounts of the Antichrist.
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