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1876: A novel
$19.15
1876: A novel Author: Vidal, Gore Publisher: Heinemann Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0434829633 ISBN-13: 9780434829637..
Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the H...
$12.33
Assassins of Memory is a passionate and painstaking look at one of the more curious realities of recent French cultural life: the prominence accorded to the phenomenon of revisionism. An attempt on the part of a tiny group of fanatics, often masquerading as scholars and researchers, to deny the exis..
Burr: A Novel
$8.72
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..
Burr: A Novel (Modern Library)
$23.67
Burr is the opening volume in Gore Vidal's great fictional chronicle of American history, each of which is being republished in the Modern Library . Burr Author: Vidal, Gore Publisher: Modern Library Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0679602852 ISBN-13: 9780679602859..
City and the Pillar
$60.92
In their teens Jim Willard and Bob Ford share a moment of sexual intimacy. Jim will spend later years searching for the recreation of that moment. When the opportunity occurs, it explodes in violence and pain. Author: Vidal, Gore Publisher: Ballantine Books Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-..
Death in the Fifth Position (Peter Cutler Sargeant...
$10.83
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, crashing..
Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare
$9.91
This book is Gore Vidal's visual memoir of his remarkable and famously well-lived life. In this collection of photographs, letters, manuscripts, and other selections from Vidal's vast personal archives, readers are now escorted by one of America's wittiest insiders into the Kennedys' Camelot, as wel..
Jemmy Button
$9.92
A beautiful collaboration based on a true story.Exchanged for the single mother-of-pearl button that gave him his nickname, an indigenous Tierra del Fuegan boy named Orundellico spent many years in England in the early 1800s as part of a failed experiment in forced civilization. Less a biography tha..
Julian
$10.68
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 b..
Julian
$25.11
Depicts the reign of Julian the Apostate, a Roman Emperor who unsuccessfully attempted to revive paganism Author: Vidal, Gore Publisher: Modern Library Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394605152 ISBN-13: 9780394605159..
Julian: A Novel
$11.49
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julianis widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the h..
Julian: A Novel
$13.49
Depicts the reign of Julian the Apostate, a Roman emperor who unsuccessfully attempted to revive paganism Author: Vidal, Gore Publisher: Random House Inc Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0394721012 ISBN-13: 9780394721019..
Kalki (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
$18.87
Bestselling author Gore Vidal joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. To satisfy a public that longs for a savior, Vidal's eponymous hero of KALKI, born and bred in America's Midwest, establishes himself in Nepal, puts out the word that he is the last incarnation of the god Vishnu, and predicts an immi..
Lincoln
$14.28
Product DescriptionHere is Abraham Lincoln, richly and vividly brought to life as Gore Vidal reads aloud from the pages of his magnificent novel Lincoln -- a great bestseller, a critical triumph, the most compelling work we have yet had from one of our most brilliant writers.Review"Utterly convincin..
Matters of Fact and of Fiction (Essays 1973-1976)
$10.16
The outspoken novelist and critic trains his sometimes controversial sights on present-day fiction, writers of note or notoriety, and fashionable literary attitudes and on historical and political topics of current interest Author: Vidal, Gore Publisher: Random House Binding: Hardcover Language: Eng..
Myra Breckinridge and Myron
$14.85
Myra's personality is altered by her sex change operation and Myron is transported back through time to the year 1948 Author: Vidal, Gore Publisher: Random House Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0394553764 ISBN-13: 9780394553764..
Myra Breckinridge/Myron (Penguin Twentieth-Century...
$15.33
Myra's personality is altered by her sex change operation and Myron is transported back through time to the year 1948 Author: Vidal, Gore Publisher: Penguin Classics Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0141180285 ISBN-13: 9780141180281..
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir
$8.72
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 arena..
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 To 2006
$12.11
In this sequel to PALIMPSEST, the celebrated novelist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. Author: Vidal, Gore Publisher: Little Brown & Co Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0316027278 ISBN-13: 9780316027274..
Screening History
$10.02
Vidal intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington, D.C., boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics. Never before has the renowned author revealed so much about his own life or written with such immediacy about ..
The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories
$12.90
When Gore Vidal's frank description of homosexual life, The City and the Pillar, was first published in 1948, the reaction was both unexpected and shocking. Republished now in hardcover with a new introduction by the author, this classic is being featured with seven of Vidal's early stories. Author:..
The Essential Gore Vidal : A Gore Vidal Reader
$15.27
The range and size of Gore Vidal's literary achievement is remarkable. He is a master of the historical novel, in which he has explored American history, ancient history, and the history of religion. He has developed his own style of science fiction combined with satire, and in the books he refers t..
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
$9.05
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-edge..
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
$13.81
A new collection of provocative, witty and eloquent essays by Gore Vidal, the greatest living American man of letters and one of the finest essayists of the twentieth (and twenty-first) century.The Last Empireis Gore Vidal's ninth collection of essays in the course of his distinguished literary care..
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1...
$12.27
This collection of essays includes Vidal's noted pieces on Theodore Roosevelt, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, and on the need for a new constitutional convention and ranges across a wide spectrum of social, political, and literary matters Author: Vidal, Gore Publisher: Random House Binding: Har..