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Title: Lord of the World
Author: Robert Hugh Benson
Narrator: Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-05-17
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 46 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:
Secular humanism has triumphed. Everything the late Victorians and Edwardians believed would bring human happiness has been achieved: Technology has made it so no one needs to work for a living, the social sciences ensure a smooth-running social order, and, in the name of tolerance, religious beliefs have been uprooted and eliminated except for a single holdout - a largely discredited and rapidly shrinking Catholic Church. Yet people are unhappy.
What has been created is a sterile world of crass materialism, a world without spiritual dimension, a world where people daily choose legalized euthanasia over the emptiness of existence. Out of this culture of despair, there arises a charismatic leader: Julian Felsenburgh. Soon the masses are in Felsenburgh's thrall, and he becomes leader of the world. But in their eagerness for change, have the citizens of the world embraced the Antichrist and hastened the end of days?
Father Percy Franklin remains a bastion of stability, even as the Catholic Church disintegrates around him. Finally outlawed and driven underground, it is only this small and shrinking church that stands against the "Lord of the World".

Members Reviews:
Must read for all Catholics!
We are approaching the end of times as our world of humanists tries to destroy Christianity. No wonder the last two Popes put it on their must read list.

Supringly prophetic ,
While written in 1907 this book is surprisingly prophetic, more so than Brave New World or even 1984.
There are a few niggles though. The use of Latin, especially in the final chapter, is untranslated and I had to google for the English translations.
Overall though a pertinent and interesting take on the rise of a humanistic society.

Enthralling
Compelling prophetic narrative brought to life by the amazing performance of the narrator. Father Robert Hugh Benson's work from 1907 is frighteningly spot on in comparison to 2017 secular society with relative morality.