![]() ![]() ![]() Marcellus surreptiously retraces the path of Jesus and asks to hear remembrances of the man in that way, Douglas retells the story of the Christ.įrom Andrew Greeley’s introduction to the 1986 reprint ![]() At first, the robe haunts him but later compels him to seek the truth of the man from Galilee. ![]() He is the tribune of the troop of soldiers ordered to carry out the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, and the robe of the deceased comes into his possession. The protagonist, Marcellus, is a Roman nobleman sent to command a remote Judean outpost. The writing is solid except for the overuse of adverbs to describe dialogue, “he said, incredulously.” The author’s motivation is didactic and apologetic. The Robe evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of Palestine and the Roman Empire of the first century. From the first to the last, Douglas’ novels received critical acclaim as Biblical fiction in the genre tradition of Ben Hur (1880) and Quo Vadis (1896). The last of his ten novels, The Big Fisherman, (Simon Peter) was published in 1949, and it too was made into a successful movie in 1959. His first novel, Magnificent Obsession, was published in 1929. It remained number one on the list for a year, and it also became a popular movie released in 1953 starring Richard Burton.ĭouglas was a Lutheran minister who turned to writing at age 50. Published in 1942, The Robe soon achieved New York Times bestseller status. ![]()
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