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Burr

Gore Vidal
Burr Book PDF

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307798411

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Burr by Gore Vidal Pdf

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 most complicated—and misunderstood—figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist named Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler. Together, they explore both Burr's past—and the continuing civic drama of their young nation. Burr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series, which spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to post-World War II. With their broad canvas and sprawling cast of fictional and historical characters, these novels present a panorama of American politics and imperialism, as interpreted by one of our most incisive and ironic observers.

Gore Vidal

Fred Kaplan
Gore Vidal Book PDF

Author : Fred Kaplan
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480409774

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Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan Pdf

This “fascinating” biography of an iconic American author and public intellectual “is so full of incident and celebrity . . . a pageant of entertaining stories” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Few writers of recent memory have distinguished themselves in so many fields, and so consummately, as Gore Vidal. A prolific novelist, Vidal also wrote for film and theater, and became a classic essayist of his own time, delivering prescient analyses of American society, politics, and culture. Known for his rapier wit and intelligence, Vidal moved with ease among the cultural elite—his grandfather was a senator, he was intimate with the Kennedys, and one of his best friends was Tennessee Williams. For this definitive biography, Fred Kaplan was given access to Vidal’s papers and letters. The result is an insightful and entertaining portrait of an exceptional and mercurial writer.

Lincoln

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Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307784230

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Lincoln by Gore Vidal Pdf

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 president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, Northern and Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a wife slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate and monumental, stark and complex, drawn with the wit, grace, and authority of one of the great historical novelists. With a new Introduction by the author.

1876

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1876 Book PDF

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525565772

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1876 by Gore Vidal Pdf

The third volume of Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United States in its centennial year. ------Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to a flamboyant America after his long, self-imposed European exile. The narrator of Burr has come home to recoup a lost fortune by arranging a suitable marriage for his beautiful daughter, the widowed Princess d'Agrigente, and by ingratiating himself with Samuel Tilden, the favored presidential candidate in the centennial year. With these ambitions and with their own abundant charms, Schuyler and his daughter soon find themselves at the centers of American social and political power at a time when the fading ideals of the young republic were being replaced by the excitement of empire. ------"A glorious piece of writing," said Jimmy Breslin in Harper's. "Vidal can take history and make it powerful and astonishing." Time concurred: "Vidal has no peers at breathing movement and laughter into the historical past." ------With a new Introduction by the author.

In Bed with Gore Vidal

Tim Teeman
In Bed with Gore Vidal Book PDF

Author : Tim Teeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1626010412

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The Art of Fiction

David Lodge
The Art of Fiction Book PDF

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137794

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The Art of Fiction by David Lodge Pdf

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

Creation

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Creation Book PDF

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525565789

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Creation by Gore Vidal Pdf

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, philosophy, and adventure . . . "There isn't a page of CREATION that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight." -- John Leonard, The New York Times

Live from Golgotha

Gore Vidal
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Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101667347

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Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal Pdf

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 ratings in the fall sweeps. As a stream of visitors from twentieth-century America channel in to the first-century Holy Land—Mary Baker Eddy, Shirley MacLaine, Oral Roberts and family—Timothy struggles to complete his story. But is Timothy's text really Hacker-proof? And how will he deal with the truth about Jesus' eating disorder? Above all, will he get the anchor slot for the Big Show at Golgotha without representation by a major agency, like CAA 1,896 years in the future? Tune in.

Inventing a Nation

Gore Vidal
Inventing a Nation Book PDF

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300127928

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Inventing a Nation by Gore Vidal Pdf

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 Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal’s splendid prose, in ways we have not up to now—their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate. The author of Burr and Lincoln, one of the master stylists of American literature and most acute observers of American life, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of these formidable men

United States: Essays 1952-1992

Gore Vidal
United States Essays 1952 1992 Book PDF

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Crown
Page : 1732 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781984823953

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United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal Pdf

A compilation of 114 classic essays from Gore Vidal. "A marvelous compendium of sharp wit and independent judgment that confirms his status as a man of letters." —Publishers Weekly From the age of Eisenhower to the dawning of the Clinton era, Gore Vidal’s United States offers an incomparably rich tapestry of American intellectual and political life in a tumultuous period. It also provides the best, most sustained exposure possible to the most wide-ranging, acute, and original literary intelligence of the post–World War II years. United States is an essential book in the canon of twentieth-century American literature and an endlessly fascinating work.

Selected Essays

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Selected Essays Book PDF

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Abacus (UK)
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124043535

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Selected Essays by Gore Vidal Pdf

This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his fifty-year writing career. With mercurial intelligence and often courageous - and outrageous! - forthrightness, Vidal explores his keystone subjects: primarily the worlds of literature and US politics; but also showbiz, sexuality and modern manners. His gaze ranges from the fiction of Calvino and Updike to the politics of pornography to the Clinton and Bush administrations, America post-September 11 and contemporary imperial ambitions. These essays are a witty and brilliant assessment of our times from the most memorable of American literary masters.

Point to Point Navigation

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Point to Point Navigation Book PDF

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307275011

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Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal Pdf

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 Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Francis Ford Coppola to the mournful passing of his longtime partner, Howard Auster, Vidal always steers his narrative with grace and flair. Entertaining, provocative, and often moving, Point to Point Navigation wonderfully captures the life of one of twentieth-century America’s most important writers.

Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare

Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal Snapshots in History s Glare Book PDF

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124110508

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Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare by Gore Vidal Pdf

Vidal's visual memoir of his remarkable and famously well-lived life focuses on a collection of photographs, letters, manuscripts, and other selections from his vast personal archives. Written with his legendary wit and literary elegance, this book reveals not only the personal reflections of one of the last of the great generation of American writers, but is a captivating social history of the 20th century told by one of its greatest raconteurs.

Thieves Fall Out

Gore Vidal
Thieves Fall Out Book PDF

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783292486

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Thieves Fall Out by Gore Vidal Pdf

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 Pillar, Vidal turned to writing crime fiction under pseudonyms: three books as “Edgar Box” and one as “Cameron Kay.” The Edgar Box novels were subsequently republished under his real name. The Cameron Kay never was. Lost for more than 60 years and overflowing with political and sexual intrigue, Thieves Fall Out provides a delicious glimpse into the mind of Gore Vidal in his formative years. By turns mischievous and deadly serious, Vidal tells the story of a man caught up in events bigger than he is, a down-on-his-luck American hired to smuggle an ancient relic out of Cairo at a time when revolution is brewing and heads are about to roll. One part Casablanca and one part torn-from-the-headlines tabloid reportage, this novel also offers a startling glimpse of Egypt in turmoil -- written over half a century ago, but as current as the news streaming from the streets of Cairo today.

Julian

Gore Vidal
Julian Book PDF

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525565802

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Julian by Gore Vidal Pdf

Julian the Apostate was the nephew of Emperor Constantine the Great. Julian ascended to the throne in A.D. 361, at the age of twenty-nine, and was murdered four years later after an unsuccessful attempt to rebuke Christianity and restore the worship of the old gods. Now this historical tapestry is brought to vibrant life by the dazzling talent of Gore Vidal.