Messiah by Gore Vidal
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"Messiah" by Gore Vidal is a satirical novel published in 1954. In this darkly prophetic tale, an American undertaker named John Cave founds a new religion that teaches followers to embrace death rather than fear it. As Cavism spreads across America, it systematically displaces Christianity, erasing cathedrals and rewriting history. The story unfolds through the memoir of Eugene Luther, one of Cave's earliest disciples, who witnesses how the movement's leaders betray their
founder and transform his teachings into something far more sinister than he ever imagined. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 54005053 |
| Title | Messiah |
| Original Publication | New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1954. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(Vidal_novel) |
| Credits | Andrés V. Galia, Santiago and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Satire |
| Subject | Cults -- Fiction |
| Subject | Suicide -- Religious aspects -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 73527 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-73527-6 |
| Release Date | May 3, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 500 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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