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Time Travel

Behold the Man

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  • 1968 first published
  • 144 pages
  • ★ 3.2 (9 ratings)
  • 12 editions
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Published in 1968, Behold the Man is a time-travel fiction story collection by Michael Moorcock. Readers will find themes of Christ, jésus and time travel.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.2 out of 5 from 9 ratings, and 43 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 12 editions.

At about 144 pages, most readers finish it in 2–3 hours.

About Behold the Man

Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre obsession with the idea of the messiah. After the collapse of his latest affair and his introduction to a reclusive physics professor, Karl is given the opportunity to confront his obsession and take a journey that no man has taken before, and from which he knows he cannot return. Upon arriving in Palestine, A.D. 29, Glogauer finds that Jesus Christ is not the man that history and faith would like to believe, but that there is an opportunity for someone to change the course of history by making the ultimate sacrifice.
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  • Christ
  • Jésus
  • Science fiction
  • English Science fiction
  • Collections & anthologies science fiction
  • Time travel

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Who wrote Behold the Man?

Behold the Man was written by Michael Moorcock and first published in 1968.

What genre is Behold the Man?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel.

How long is Behold the Man?

The median edition has 144 pages, about 2–3 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Behold the Man?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Invisible Man, A Wrinkle in Time and The Time Machine.

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