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Deadly Sins Deadly Sins A. S. Byatt,William Trevor,Mary Gordon,Gore Vidal,John Updike,Howard, Richard,Joyce Carol Oates,Thomas Pynchon This is a collection of short literary essays, one to each of the seven sins, plus an extra item in "despair", by as many prominent literary figures, of whom Byatt is one. Others include Gore Vidal a… OL14911100W
Duluth Duluth Gore Vidal Duluth est une sorte de Dallas, ville US typique où tout semble se prêter à la réalisation d'un feuilleton. Gore Vidal a longtemps écrit pour la télévision : ici, sa plume fait naître une cité mi-rée… OL15811995W
Thieves fall out Thieves fall out Gore Vidal Follows the exploits of a down-on-his-luck American as he tries to smuggle an ancient relic out of Cairo during a time of revolution. In 1953, Vidal had already begun writing the works that would la… OL17753021W
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal Gore Vidal Gore Vidal--novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist--is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more s… OL7974878W
The Golden Age The Golden Age Gore Vidal **From Amazon.com:** **The Golden Age** is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and t… OL7974912W
Point to Point Navigation Point to Point Navigation Gore Vidal The brilliant sequel to Gore Vidal's acclaimed, bestselling memoir, Palimpsest.In Point to Point Navigation, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely o… OL7974919W
The Other Persuasion The Other Persuasion Jane Rule,Marcel Proust,John Horne Burns,Ernest Hemingway,Seymour Kleinberg,Christopher Isherwood,David Herbert Lawrence,Graham Greene,Maude Hutchins,Gertrude Stein,William Faulkner,William Carlos Williams,James Purdy - undifferentiated,Doris Betts,Marris Murray,Paul Bowles,Elizabeth Taylor,Gore Vidal,Tennessee Williams,Ingeborg Bachmann,Edmund White,James T. Farrell,Radclyffe Hall,E. M. Forster,John O'Donovan,Helen Essary Ansell,John O'Hara Contains: Before dark (1893) / by Marcel Proust ; translated by Richard Howard -- Mabel Neathe (1903) / by Gertrude Stein -- Prologue to Women in love (1921) / by D.H. Lawrence -- Miss Ogilvy f… OL8067393W
Burr: a novel Burr: a novel Gore Vidal A pamphlet by Vidal issued in connection with the release of *Burr* in paperback. OL97984W
Messiah Messiah Gore Vidal When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vida… OL98017W
Kalki Kalki Gore Vidal Is the ex GI posing as Kalki, an ancient Hindu diety, running an international drug ring or bringing about the destruction of the world? OL98027W
Julian Julian Gore Vidal Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander th… OL98028W
The city and the pillar The city and the pillar Gore Vidal The City and the Pillar is the third published novel by American writer Gore Vidal, written in 1946 and published on January 10, 1948. The story is about a young man who is coming of age and discover… OL98031W