Antonin Artaud’s novelised biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in

'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times A Financial Times, BBC History and Spectator Book of the Year On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-

"Heliogabalus: A Buffoonery in Three Acts" is a book written by Mencken and his co-editor friend George Jean Nathan to show how easy it was to write a play. The