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Selected Essays by Gore Vidal
Category: Culture
Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' John Simpson, Daily Mail This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his fifty-year writing career. With mercurial intelligence a ...Show more
The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction
A literary cause c l bre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in "awful ...Show more
The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction
A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful ki ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire by Gore Vidal
Category: Politics | Series: The\Real Story Ser.
This delightful book is the perfect introduction to Vidal's witty political writing.
The Essential Gore Vidal by Vidal, Gore
Category: Philosophy
Vidal writes with ease and grace, and roams through many subjects and genres. He is a master of the historical novel, in which he has explored American history, ancient history, and the history of religion. He has developed his own style of science fiction combined with satire, and in the books he refer ...Show more
The Golden Age: A Novel by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic wi ...Show more
The Last Empire by Gore Vidal
Category: History
Gore Vidal's new collection of essays shows him still writing at his finest. His comments on the deplorable state of American politics - from Bill Clinton to George Bush - are as apposite as ever and, controversially, there are two magnificent essays on the Oklahoma bomber Timothy Mc Veigh - who entered ...Show more
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
Category: Philosophy | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Gore Vidal--novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist--is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. ...Show more
Thieves Fall Out by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction | Series: Hard Case Crime
Gore Vidal was one of America's greatest writers. The author of 23 novels, five plays, three memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories and well over 200 essays, he received the National Book Award in 1993. But in the wake of criticism for the scandalous content of his third novel, 'The City and th ...Show more
United States: v. 1: Essays, 1952-92 by Gore Vidal
Category: History
A collection of essays taken from 40 years of the author's work. It is divided into three sections: State of the Art , which covers literature; State of the Union , which deals with politics and public life; and State of Being , which gives his personal responses to people and events.