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Messiah (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Vidal, Gore is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in 1954, eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and the Heaven's Gate suicide cult.</p>
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141180397
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (699 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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