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The Messiah
ISBN: 9780141180397 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,44 zł |
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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
ISBN: 9780375726392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 subjects. From his celebrated profiles of Clare Boothe Luce and Charles Lindbergh and his controversial essay about the Bill of Rights-which sparked an extended correspondence with convicted Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh-to his...
Like his National Book Award--winning United States, Gore Vidal's scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his re...
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87,15 zł |
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Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006
ISBN: 9780307275011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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, and international society where he has cut a wide swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and sometimes lost). From encounters with, amongst others, Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor...
In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and con...
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78,44 zł |
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The Golden Age: Number 7 in series
ISBN: 9780349114279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The seventh volume of what Vidal has entitled the Narratives of Empire. In The Golden Age, which offers a fictionalized version of American politics from 1940 to 2000, his main charge is that one of the most revered of all 20th-century presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, provoked, and then failed to warn his commanders about, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His deception was brought about by a poll which revealed that 60 per cent of Americans were opposed to any foreign war.
The seventh volume of what Vidal has entitled the Narratives of Empire. In The Golden Age, which offers a fictionalized version of American politics f...
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76,32 zł |
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Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal
ISBN: 9780140231199 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. It is A.D. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been systematically destroying the tapes that describe the Good News, and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the Hacker's deadly virus. Meanwhile, thanks to a breakthrough in computer software, an NBC crew is racing into the past to capture--live from the suburb of Golgotha--the Crucifixion, for a TV special guaranteed to boost the network's...
Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. It is A.D. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to...
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95,87 zł |
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Thieves Fall Out
ISBN: 9781783292493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The lost pulp crime novel by great American novelist Gore Vidal Hired to smuggle an ancient artefact out of Egypt, Pete Wells finds himself the target of killers and femme fatales - and just one step away from triggering a revolution that will set Cairo aflame
The lost pulp crime novel by great American novelist Gore Vidal Hired to smuggle an ancient artefact out of Egypt, Pete Wells finds himself the ... |
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49,09 zł |
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
ISBN: 9780349105246 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 1312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Suetonius, Nabakov and Montaigne (a previosly uncollected essay from 1992). State of the union deals with politics and public life: sex, drugs, money, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Holy Family...
Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about t...
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86,51 zł |
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Hollywood: Number 5 in series
ISBN: 9780349105260 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The fifth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
The fifth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
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76,32 zł |
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Hollywood
ISBN: 9780375708756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Wicked and provocative...Vidal's purview of Hollywood in one of its golden ages is fascinating." --Chicago Tribune In his brilliant and dazzling new novel, Gore Vidal sweeps us into one of the most fascinating periods of American political and social change. The time is 1917. In Washington, President Wilson is about to lead the United States into the Great War. In California, a new industry is born that will transform America: moving pictures. Here is history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming with intrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screen and...
"Wicked and provocative...Vidal's purview of Hollywood in one of its golden ages is fascinating." --Chicago Tribune In his brilliant and da...
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82,79 zł |
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The Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 9780156006484 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. The boy turns out to hold the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and breakthroughs in the time continuum. As he brainstorms with Robert Oppenheimer, he catches a glimpse of the coming war and becomes determined to ward off the cataclysm. In a race against time-and surrounded by figures from American history past and present, including Albert Einstein, Grover Cleveland, and Abraham Lincoln-he battles to save...
It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is bein...
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82,57 zł |
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Lincoln: Number 2 in series
ISBN: 9780349105307 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The second novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
The second novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
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76,32 zł |
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1876: Number 3 in series
ISBN: 9780349105291 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The third novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
The third novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
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76,32 zł |
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
ISBN: 9781560254058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed too controversial to publish in this country until now) Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the...
The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American...
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65,36 zł |
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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
ISBN: 9780300105926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense l... |
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70,93 zł |
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Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
ISBN: 9781560257448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gore Vidal has been described as the last noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing Americathose who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and Blueby demonstrating that those whose protest arbitrary and secret government, those who defend the bill of rights, those who seek to restrain America's international power, are the true patriots. "Those Americans who refuse to plunge blindly into the maelstrom of European and Asiatic politics are not defeatist or neurotic," he writes. "They are...
Gore Vidal has been described as the last noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing Amer...
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87,11 zł |
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Empire
ISBN: 9780375708749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama." --The New York Times Book Review In this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age--a period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries. In a vivid and beathtaking work of fiction, where the fortunes of a sister and brother intertwine with the fates of the generation, their...
"Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earl...
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82,79 zł |
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Empire: Number 4 in series
ISBN: 9780349105284 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The fourth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
The fourth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
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86,51 zł |
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Washington D C: Number 6 in series
ISBN: 9780349105277 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The sixth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
The sixth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
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76,32 zł |
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The City and the Pillar
ISBN: 9781400030378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A literary "cause celebre" 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 stuff, the experience forms Jim s ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship. Along the way he struggles with what he feels is his unique bond with Bob and with his persistent... A literary "cause celebre" when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel...
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78,44 zł |
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The Golden Age: A Novel
ISBN: 9780375724817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 witnesses to these events are Caroline Sanford, Hollywood actress turned Washington D.C., newspaper publisher, and Peter Sanford, her nephew and publisher of the independent intellectual journal The American Idea. They experience at first hand the masterful maneuvers of Franklin...
The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal ...
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87,15 zł |
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