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The Kingdom of the Wicked (1985) is a novel by Anthony Burgess.

Abstract

An international bestseller.

Written in part as preparation for a screenplay for the TV mini-series A.D. - Anno Domini (1985 Cooper), TV mini-series covers the apostolic period from the death of Jesus to the end of the first century. By the author of Man of Nazareth (1979 Burgess), novel.

"Beginning with the crucifixion of Jesus and ending, seventy years later, with the destruction of Pompeii, the wminent novelist and critic limns a dazzling, intellectually provocative recreation of the beginnings of Christianity ... A Roman saga, taking in the excesses of Tiberius, Caligula and Nero and an irreverent account of the early days of Christianity."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Great Britain (London: Hutchinson, 1985) and the United States (New York, NY: Arbor House, 1985).

Translations

Translated into several languages.

• Das Reich der Verderbnis (1985 Burgess), novel (German ed.)

• Le royaume des mécréants (1986 Burgess), novel (French ed.)

• El reino de los réprobos (1988 Burgess), novel (Spanish ed.)

External links

• Wikipedia