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City And The Pillar
Av Gore Vidal
Häftad, 2025
144 kr
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A literary cause célèbre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experienceJim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door, is haunted by the memory of a romantic adolescent encounter with his friend …
United States
Essays 1952-1992
Av Gore Vidal
Häftad, 1994
243 kr
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A collection of essays taken from 40 years of work by the bestselling and celebrated Gore VidalGore 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 …
Kalki
Av Gore Vidal
Häftad, 1993
187 kr
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Investigative journalist and aviatrix Teddy, who narrates Gore Vidal's metaphysical thriller, has moulded herself on flying ace Amelia Earhart. Although she's aware that's a bit anachronistic, it qualifies her to pilot Kalki, Vietnam vet and incarnate of Vishnu, round Kathmandu in a story that …
Julian
Av Gore Vidal
Häftad, 1993
194 kr
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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.
Creation
Av Gore Vidal
Häftad, 1993
194 kr
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Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters.
Lincoln
Number 2 in series
Av Gore Vidal
Häftad, 1994
193 kr
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In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of the man who led America …
1876
Number 3 in series
Av Gore Vidal
Häftad, 1994
193 kr
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With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics. And this is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner parties, more corruption, and all the …
Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal
Av Gore Vidal
Häftad, 1993
363 kr
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Inventing a Nation
Washington, Adams, Jefferson
Av Gore Vidal
Häftad, 2004
154 kr
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Gore Vidal’s uniquely irreverent take on America’s founding fathers will enliven all future discussion of the enduring power of their nation-building ideas “Trust Gore Vidal to teach us things we never learned in school. In Inventing a Nation, his quick wit flickers over the canonical tale of our …
Point to Point Navigation
Av Gore Vidal
E-bok, 2007
160 kr
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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 …
Death Likes It Hot
Av Gore Vidal
E-bok, 2011
173 kr
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In Death Likes it Hot , dashing P.R. man Peter Sargeant travels out to a posh beach community to help a wealthy socialite plan an end-of-summer party. His enjoyment of the sun, the surf, and the company of a lovely young fashion reporter is interrupted by the death of the socialite''s niece: she …
Death in the Fifth Position
Av Gore Vidal
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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In Death in the Fifth Position , dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is hired by a ballet company on the eve of a major upcoming performance. Handling the press seems to be no problem, but when a rising star in the company is killed during the performance—dropped from thirty feet above the stage, …
Death Before Bedtime
Av Gore Vidal
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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In Death Before Bedtime , dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is invited to the home of a venerable senator to help strategize his imminent run for president. On the night before he’s to announce, though, the senator is murdered in his bed. No longer needed as a political publicist, Sargent finds …
Hollywood
Av Gore Vidal
E-bok, 2011
205 kr
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Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal''s "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States. It is 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new …
Lincoln
A Novel
Av Gore Vidal
E-bok, 2011
205 kr
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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, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future …
Empire
A Novel
Av Gore Vidal
E-bok, 2011
205 kr
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Empire, the fourth novel in Gore Vidal''s monumental six-volume chronicle of the American past, is his prodigiously detailed portrait of the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century as it begins to emerge as a world power. ------While America struggles to define its destiny, beautiful and …
Burr
A Novel
Av Gore Vidal
E-bok, 2011
139 kr
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For readers who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation. Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the …
Golden Age
A Novel
Av Gore Vidal
E-bok, 2012
225 kr
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The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal''s celebrated and bestselling Narratives of Empire series-a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States'' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War. The historical novel is once again in vogue, and Gore Vidal …
Duluth
Av Gore Vidal
Häftad, 1993
250 kr
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When two women tragically perish in a Duluth snowdrift, the one called Edna is reborn in 'Duluth', the popular television series and the one called Beryl finds herself in a 'Hyatt Regency' romantic novel entitled ROGUE DUKE. In Duluth they do it all with word processors. Meanwhile Lieutenant …
Myra Breckinridge And Myron
Av Gore Vidal
Häftad, 1993
194 kr
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It is a risky (and risque) business becoming 'Woman Triumphant' - exercising total power over men like Rusty Godowski. Rusty just wants to be a Hollywood star like everyone else at Buck Loner's academy, but now that Buck's niece, Myra Breckinridge, has arrived, the curriculum is taking a wildly …
Hollywood
Number 5 in series
Av Gore Vidal
Häftad, 1994
193 kr
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Continuing what has been dubbed his 'revenge on two hundred years of American history', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America's capital as the nation's power-base, just as it fights for centre-stage in this book. Caroline Sanford, …
