# Earthly Powers

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-burgess/earthly-powers/9780099468646

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-burgess/earthly-powers/9780099468646.json

![Earthly Powers](https://quivercdn.com/covers/vintage-classics/anthony-burgess/earthly-powers_978-00-9946-864-6.jpg?v=2026-04-22%2008%3A42%3A35)

- Book: [Earthly Powers](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-burgess/earthly-powers) ([Earthly Powers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-burgess/earthly-powers.md))
- Authors: [Anthony Burgess](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-burgess)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9946-864-6
- Pages: 656
- Published: 2010-12-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. These two men are linked not only by family ties but by a common understanding of mankind's frailties. In this epic masterpiece, Anthony Burgess plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it.