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Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38868-1 (0-307-38868-9)
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.
This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary... Read more >
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38868-1 (0-307-38868-9)
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.
This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary... Read more >
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Written by Gore Vidal
Edited by Jay Parini
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: June 17, 2008
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-385-52484-1 (0-385-52484-6)
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. This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his forays into criticism, reviewing, political... Read more >
Written by Gore Vidal
Edited by Jay Parini
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: June 17, 2008
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-385-52484-1 (0-385-52484-6)
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. This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his forays into criticism, reviewing, political... Read more >
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A Memoir
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27501-1 (0-307-27501-9)
In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.
Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27501-1 (0-307-27501-9)
In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.
Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The City and the Pillar
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3037-8 (1-4000-3037-4)
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 kid... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3037-8 (1-4000-3037-4)
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 kid... Read more >
Julian
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72706-1 (0-375-72706-X)
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.
Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72706-1 (0-375-72706-X)
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.
Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire... Read more >
Tarzan of the Apes
Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Afterword by Gore Vidal
Introduction by James Taliaferro
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 11, 2003
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6706-7 (0-8129-6706-2)
The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is “the best known character... Read more >
Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Afterword by Gore Vidal
Introduction by James Taliaferro
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 11, 2003
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6706-7 (0-8129-6706-2)
The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is “the best known character... Read more >
Das ist nicht Amerika!
Essays - Ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Willi Winkler
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: New Media German Language
On Sale: September 1, 2002
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3986-9 (1-4000-3986-X)
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Essays - Ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Willi Winkler
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: New Media German Language
On Sale: September 1, 2002
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3986-9 (1-4000-3986-X)
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eBook.
Creation
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72705-4 (0-375-72705-1)
Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history — this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C. — and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations. We meet a vast array of historical figures in a staggering novel of love, war... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72705-4 (0-375-72705-1)
Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history — this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C. — and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations. We meet a vast array of historical figures in a staggering novel of love, war... Read more >
The Last Empire
Essays 1992-2000
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72639-2 (0-375-72639-X)
Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit to bear on an astonishing range of... Read more >
Essays 1992-2000
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72639-2 (0-375-72639-X)
Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit to bear on an astonishing range of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Golden Age
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72481-7 (0-375-72481-8)
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... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72481-7 (0-375-72481-8)
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... Read more >
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Empire
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 1, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70874-9 (0-375-70874-X)
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A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 1, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70874-9 (0-375-70874-X)
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Hollywood
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 1, 2000
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70875-6 (0-375-70875-8)
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Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 1, 2000
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70875-6 (0-375-70875-8)
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Washington, D.C.
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 1, 2000
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70877-0 (0-375-70877-4)
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A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 1, 2000
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70877-0 (0-375-70877-4)
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1876
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 15, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70872-5 (0-375-70872-3)
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A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 15, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70872-5 (0-375-70872-3)
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Burr
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 15, 2000
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70873-2 (0-375-70873-1)
Gore Vidal's American Chronicle series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 15, 2000
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70873-2 (0-375-70873-1)
Gore Vidal's American Chronicle series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its... Read more >
Lincoln
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 15, 2000
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70876-3 (0-375-70876-6)
Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood.
It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861 with President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 15, 2000
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70876-3 (0-375-70876-6)
Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood.
It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861 with President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of... Read more >
Of Human Bondage
Written by W. Somerset Maugham
Introduction by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: March 2, 1999
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75315-2 (0-375-75315-X)
With an Introduction by Gore Vidal, and Commentary by Theodore Dreiser and Graham Greene.
Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip Carey, a sensitive boy born... Read more >
Written by W. Somerset Maugham
Introduction by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: March 2, 1999
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75315-2 (0-375-75315-X)
With an Introduction by Gore Vidal, and Commentary by Theodore Dreiser and Graham Greene.
Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip Carey, a sensitive boy born... Read more >
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