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Author: Anthony Burgess

Genre: Literary Fiction
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780749079642
Pages: 352
Rights: UK & Commonwealth
Pub. Date: 23rd February 2009

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Price: £8.99

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The Kingdom of the Wicked is one of Anthony Burgess's most ambitious novels. Its subject, nothing less than the first years of Christianity, recreated in vivid and meticulous detail.  

Sadoc son of Azor, a retired shipping clerk lying diseased and dying on the outreaches of the Roman Empire, sets down for future generations a tale of epic proportions: he is charged with recounting no less an event than the birth of Christianity. And what an account it is - the son of the god of love was born into the kingdom of the wicked.

'Both reader and author have marvellous fun. Some ten or dozen emperors or empresses are stabbed, hacked to pieces, poisoned or otherwise brutally murdered. Few varieties of curious sex are not given a showing. And as for the burning of Rome, throwing Christians to the lions, and the sacking of the temple at Jerusalem - what an opportunity they provide for Burgess's rumbustious style.'Sunday Telegraph

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