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Paperback Books by Gore Vidal
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| Publication Date: October 2007 |
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| The Judgment of Paris |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| Philip Warren, a handsome young jet-setting American writer--the classic innocent abroad--goes to Europe for a year to find himself. There he becomes involved with three women, representing three different kinds of temptation--but he also... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 2007 |
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| Publication Date: July 2006 |
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| Publication Date: July 2005 |
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| The City and the Pillar |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| An important human document, of excellent and enlightening truthfulness....[It] interests me not least because of the experience of the world and of travel that it offers. |
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| Publication Date: December 2003 |
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| Julian |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels.
Julian the Apostate, nephew of... Read More |
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| Publication Date: August 2003 |
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| Williwaw |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| A gripping tale of men struggling against nature and themselves, Williwaw was Gore Vidal's first novel, written at nineteen when he was first mate of the U.S. Army freight supply ship stationed in the Aleutian Islands. Here he writes... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2003 |
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| Publication Date: December 2002 |
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| Publication Date: December 2002 |
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| Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called 'perpetual war for perpetual peace.' The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 2002 |
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| The Golden Age |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| A vivid, kaleidoscopic fictional narrative of American history from 1939 to 1954 follows the seminal events--World War II and the Cold War--and personalities that transformed America from a republic to an empire, as seen through the eyes of... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 2001 |
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| Empire |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama.'... Read More |
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| Publication Date: August 2000 |
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| Washington, D.C. |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| An illuminating study of American national politics, from the New Deal to the McCarthy Era, contrasts the personalities, politics, and values of two men vying for the Presidency as it follows the lives and fortunes of ruthless newspaper... Read More |
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| Publication Date: July 2000 |
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| 1876 |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| Returning to America after his long European sojourn, Charlie Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, and Charlie's widowed daughter seek financial and political advancement in the centennial power centers, as republican idealism is giving... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 2000 |
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| Burr |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| Gore Vidal’s 1973 novel in the guise of a memoir of Burr’s life is told with plenty of gossipy detail. Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, an ambitious journalist, is writing an anonymous pamphlet to prove that Martin Van Buren... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 2000 |
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| Lincoln |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 2000 |
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| Publication Date: January 1998 |
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| Kalki (Twentieth-Century Classics) |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| Who is Kalki, and why is he planning to destroy the world -- and everything in it? And if Kalki is a mystical legend, then why does his ultimate world include only a select few chosen to breed a new human race? |
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| Publication Date: January 1998 |
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| Palimpsest: A Memoir |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal's compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author's celebrated life, from his birth... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 1996 |
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| Creation |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| Cyrus Spitama, the aged Persian ambassador to Athens, recounts his official and personal journeys throughout the world of the fifth century B.C. and his encounters with the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and other great men of an extraordinary... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 1993 |
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| Creation |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| A sweeping novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure–in a restored edition, featuring never-before-published material from Gore Vidal's original manuscript–Creation offers a captivating grand tour of the ancient... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 1993 |
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| Hollywood |
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| by Gore Vidal |
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| Who could possibly resist a novel that begins as William Randolph Hearst falls on his behind? The fifth novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire sequence (sixth, however, in order of publication) begins on the eve of American... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 1991 |
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