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May 2023 - epub format revised and verified by zardox (no changes to book content). Genre: Historical ebook, 598 pages Paperback, 592 pages Published: 1981 Edition: Vintage International Edition (2002) Burgess 99 Novels Best (1939-1983) A sweeping novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure–in a restored edition, featuring never-before-published material from Gore Vidal’s original manuscript–Creation offers a captivating grand tour of the ancient world. Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster and lifelong friend of Xerxes, spent most of his life as Persian ambassador for the great king Darius. He traveled to India, where he discussed nirvana with Buddha, and to the warring states of Cathay, where he learned of Tao from Master Li and fished on the riverbank with Confucius. Now blind and aged in Athens–the Athens of Pericles, Sophocles, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Socrates–Cyrus recounts his days as he strives to resolve the fundamental questions that have guided his life’s journeys: how the universe was created, and why evil was created with good. In revisiting the fifth century b.c.–one of the most spectacular periods in history–Gore Vidal illuminates the ideas that h

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Author

Gore Vidal; [with a foreword by Anthony Burgess]

Publisher

Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random House Inc

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375727054

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Religion, Philosophy

Rating

4.21 / 5 (162 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14