Vidal, Gore 1925-2012 creator text utu 2024 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Messiah" by Gore Vidal is a satirical novel published in 1954. In this darkly prophetic tale, an American undertaker named John Cave founds a new religion that teaches followers to embrace death rather than fear it. As Cavism spreads across America, it systematically displaces Christianity, erasing cathedrals and rewriting history. The story unfolds through the memoir of Eugene Luther, one of Cave's earliest disciples, who witnesses how the movement's leaders betray their founder and transform his teachings into something far more sinister than he ever imagined. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(Vidal_novel) Release date is 2024-05-03 Andrés V. Galia, Santiago and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Originally published: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1954 Science fiction Satire Cults -- Fiction Suicide -- Religious aspects -- Fiction PS New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1954 54005053 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000047568070&view=1up&seq=9 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73527 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000047568070&view=1up&seq=9 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73527 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134712.0 73527