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The Essential Gore Vidal by Vidal, Gore
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- Historical
- Ex Libris
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- Yes
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- Features
- Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780679457466
- Book Title
- Essential Gore Vidal
- Item Length
- 9.7in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.8in
- Genre
- Literary Collections, Fiction
- Topic
- General
- Item Width
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 47.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- Xxx, 988 Pages
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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 to as his "inventions" he writes cautionary tales about sex, politics, art, and philosophy. He is at once a contrarian, a wise man, and a romantic. He is also wickedly funny, and often outrageous. All of these qualities are evident in his essays, which deal with things about which he feels passionately. He writes about other writers--Tennessee Williams, Henry James, Montaigne, Edmund Wilson--and about public life, and his own life, which has been complicated and rich. This collection (the only single volume that includes both Vidal's fiction and his essays) contains two complete long works--Myra Breckinridge, perhaps his most famous novel, and The Best Man, a play about the American presidency. There are selections from The City and the Pillar, his early, controversial novel about homosexual love, and excerpts from such later works as Julian, Duluth, and Live from Golgotha. Selections from the American history novels--Burr, Lincoln, 1876, Empire, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C.--have been woven together to provide a continuous narrative. There are twenty-five essays here, on the many subjects that have engaged Vidal during his long career. The editor, Fred Kaplan, who is writing the first major biography of Vidal, has provided an introduction to the work as a whole as well as an introductory explanation of each selection. He has also prepared a biographical chronology and a bibliography.
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679457461
ISBN-13
9780679457466
eBay Product ID (ePID)
559708
Product Key Features
Book Title
Essential Gore Vidal
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Literary Collections, Fiction
Number of Pages
Xxx, 988 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.7in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
47.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3543.I26a6 1999
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-026590
Dewey Decimal
818.5/4/09
Dewey Edition
21
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