The Messiah
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.
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January 1, 1998
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Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.
Palimpsest
Gore Vidal
Myra Breckinridge
Gore Vidal
United States: Essays 1952-1992
Gore Vidal
At Home
Gore Vidal
Homage to Daniel Shays
Gore Vidal
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham; Introduction by Selina Hastings
Death in the Fifth Position
Gore Vidal writing as Edgar Box
Death Before Bedtime
Gore Vidal writing as Edgar Box
Death Likes It Hot
Gore Vidal writing as Edgar Box
Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Point to Point Navigation
Gore Vidal
Tarzan of the Apes and the Prisoner of Zenda
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Gore Vidal, Anthony Hope, Justin Kaplan
The Captain and the Enemy
Graham Greene
The Four Feathers
A. E. W. Mason, Gary Hoppenstand
Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
A Russian Journal
John Steinbeck
Carpenter's Gothic
William Gaddis
Selected Letters of Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore
The Wonderful World of Oz
L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill, W. W. Denslow
The Book of Lamentations
Rosario Castellanos
To Jerusalem and Back
Saul Bellow
The Complete Saki
Saki, H. H. Munro
Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf
The Golden Bough
James Frazer
The Messiah
Gore Vidal