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United States: Essays 1952-1992
ISBN: 9780349105246 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 1312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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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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Palimpsest: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780349147154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Myra Breckinridge And Myron
ISBN: 9780349147130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Julian
ISBN: 9780349104737 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader.
Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in a...
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Thieves Fall Out
ISBN: 9781781167922 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION, EGYPT IS A TINDERBOX.
WILL ONE AMERICAN LIGHT THE SPARK THAT SETS IT ABLAZE? Gore Vidal was one of America s greatest and most controversial writers. The author of twenty-three novels, five plays, three memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two hundred essays, he received the National Book Award in 1993. In 1953, Vidal had already begun writing the works that would launch him to the top ranks of American authors and intellectuals. But in the wake of criticism for the scandalous content of his third novel, "The City and the... ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION, EGYPT IS A TINDERBOX.
WILL ONE AMERICAN LIGHT THE SPARK THAT SETS IT ABLAZE? Gore Vidal was one of America s greate... |
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Myra Breckinridge
ISBN: 9780525566502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The City And The Pillar
ISBN: 9780349147123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
ISBN: 9780375726392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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The Messiah
ISBN: 9780141180397 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Myra Breckinridge And Myron
ISBN: 9780349103655 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Gore Vidal's two related novels in a single volume, with a new introduction by the author. Myra Breckinridge arrives in Hollywood intending to prove that it is possible to work out in life all one's fantasies - and survive. And in Myron she returns to battle it out with her eponymous alter ego.
Gore Vidal's two related novels in a single volume, with a new introduction by the author. Myra Breckinridge arrives in Hollywood intending to prove t...
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Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006
ISBN: 9780307275011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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The Golden Age: Number 7 in series
ISBN: 9780349114279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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Julian
ISBN: 9780349147147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal
ISBN: 9780140231199 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
ISBN: 9781560257448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Williwaw
ISBN: 9780226855851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Williwaw was Gore Vidal's first novel, written at nineteen, when he was first mate of a U.S. army freight supply ship. Here he writes of a ship caught plying the lethal, frigid Arctic waters during storm season.
Williwaw was Gore Vidal's first novel, written at nineteen, when he was first mate of a U.S. army freight supply ship. Here he writes of a ship caught...
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The City And The Pillar
ISBN: 9780349106571 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In their teens, Jim Willard and Bob Ford share a moment of sexual intimacy and Jim spends years searching for the recreation of that moment. When the opportunity occurs, it explodes with violence and pain. This was one of the first pieces of explicitly gay fiction.
In their teens, Jim Willard and Bob Ford share a moment of sexual intimacy and Jim spends years searching for the recreation of that moment. When the ...
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