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Burr by Gore Vidal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Narratives of Empire
In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American hist ...Show more
Burr by Gore Vidal
$31.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: American Chronicle
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 m ...Show more
Creation by Gore Vidal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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.
Creation by Gore Vidal
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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. Includes a new Preface by the author. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
$50.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"My Life in Pictures" is Gore Vidal's visual memoir of his famously well-lived life, illustrated with photographs, letters, manuscripts and other ephemera from his vast personal archive accompanied by text filled with his legendary charm and sharp wit. "My Life in Pictures" is Gore Vidal's visual memoir ...Show more
I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener by Gore Vidal
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"I exist to say, 'No, that isn't the way it is, ' or 'What you believe to be true is not true for the following reasons.' I am a master of the obvious. I mean, if there's a hole in the road, I will, viciously, outrageously, say there's a hole in the road and if you don't fill it in you'll break the axle ...Show more
Imperial AmericaReflections on the United States of Amnesia by Gore Vidal
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Gore Vidal has been described as the last ‘noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing America—those who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and Blue—by demonstrating that those whose protest arbitrary ...Show more
Inventing a Nation by Gore Vidal
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Washington, Adams, Jefferson Inventing a Nation is Gore Vidal's testament to the America he loves and mourns, to its continued promise and troubled future. Vidal, a master stylist of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and ...Show more
Julian by VIDAL Gore
$38.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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 Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the his ...Show more
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
$24.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: American Chronicle
In this profoundly moving work of epic proportion and intense human sympathy, Abraham Lincoln is observed by his loved ones, his rivals, and his future assassin.
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Narratives of Empire | Reading Level: good
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 through fou ...Show more
Myra Breckinridge & Myron by Gore Vidal
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 strange ...Show more