The Kingdom of the Wicked

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Format	E-book
Author	Anthony Burgess
Rights	World English ex US
ISBN	9780749012830

Category: A&B Classics

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From the author of A Clockwork Orange

‘You may expect to meet all manner of wickedness in what follows – pork-eating, lechery, adultery, bigamy, sodomy, bestiality, the most ingenious varieties of cruelty, assassination, the worship of false gods and the sin of being  uncircumcised. So you may lick your lips in anticipation of being, as it were, vicariously corrupted at the hands of your author…’

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 story of a religion of love, born into the cruelties of the kingdom of the wicked.

The Kingdom of the Wicked is one of Anthony Burgess’s most ambitious novels. Its ancient setting, recreated in vivid and meticulous detail, is rendered new in this stunning account of the Roman Empire and its clashes with Christianity.