GORE VIDAL (1925-2012) was an American writer of novels, essays, screenplays, and stage plays, and a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.As a novelist Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life; the polished, erudite style of narration readily evokes the time and place of the story, and perceptively delineates the psychology of the characters.
39 Ebooks by Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal: Messiah
When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a new religion which goes global and eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David …
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Gore Vidal: Inventing a Nation
This New York Times bestseller offers “an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all” (New York Review of Books). In Inventing a Nation, National …
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€18.71
Gore Vidal & Jon Wiener: I Told You So
"I exist to say, ‘No, that isn’t the way it is, ‘ or ‘What you believe to be true is not true for the following reasons.’ I am a master of the obvious. I mean, if there’s a hole in the road, I …
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Gore Vidal: Messiah
When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore …
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€4.95
Gore Vidal: Judgement of Paris
Master storyteller Gore Vidal’s 1952 classic.The fast and furious hedonistic world of the jet-set commuting between the glamour centres of Europe is the setting for this famous novel by one of the …
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€6.23
William F. Buckley & Gore Vidal: Buckley vs. Vidal
Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal exploded onto the political scene during the presidential conventions of 1968 when they debated 11 times on ABC News as a part …
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€20.05
Robert Scheer: Playing President
Reflections on, and interviews with, US presidents from Nixon to George W. Bush, from “one of the best reporters of our time” (Joan Didion, New York Times–bestselling author of …
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€14.87
Israel Shahak: Historia judía, religión judía
Edward Said, en el prólogo, afirma: ‘Este libro es un devastador retrato del prejuicio, la hipocresía y la intolerancia religiosa. La descripción de Shahak es importante sobre todo porque no solo …
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Edgar Rice Burroughs & Anthony Hope: Tarzan of the Apes and the Prisoner of Zenda
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Gore Vidal: In a Yellow Wood
Robert Holton has returned from Europe and settled into a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroker. He suppresses memories of nights of love in Florence as he tries to succeed in the …
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€1.82
Gore Vidal: Williwaw A Novel
of a U.S. Army supply ship stationed in the Aleutian Islands. The story combines war drama, maritime adventure and a murder plot. The book was first published in 1946 in the United States by E.P. …
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Gore Vidal: Williwaw
Williwaw first published in 1946, is the notable first novel of a young Gore Vidal, who during World War II was a first mate of a supply ship stationed in the Aleutian Islands. The story revolves …
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