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[CROWLEY, Aleister] The World's Tragedy (Collector's Limited Edition)
[CROWLEY, Aleister] The World's Tragedy (Collector's Limited Edition)
Introduction by Israel Regardie; Foreword by Christopher S. Hyatt and Lon Milo DuQuette
Scottsdale: New Falcon Publications, 1991. Third Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxviii + 114pp. Special hardcover collector's limited edition in an unspecified number. Gilt titles to front and spine. A few faint lines in the cloth to upper front, otherwise a fine copy. An uncommon edition.
Crowley's tongue is at its sharpest in this indictment of Christianity. It is written in the form of a play. Crowley stated in his Confessions: "This is beyond all question the high-water mark of my imagination, my metrical fluency, my wealth of expression, and my power of bringing together the most incongruous ideas so as to enrich my matter to the utmost. At the same time, I succeeded in reaching the greatest height of spiritual enthusiasm, human indignation, and demoniac satire." With incisive commentary by Crowley experts Regardie, Hyatt, and DuQuette.




