* The fifth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.

"Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare" ist ein autobiografisches Werk, das das facettenreiche Leben des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Gore Vidal beleuchtet. Das Buch kombiniert persönliche Fotografien, Briefe und Erinnerungen, um...

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...

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 world.Cyrus...

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 sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible...

Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door-, is haunted by the memory of a romanctic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the very same masculinity he possesses...

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...

"Empire: A Novel" von Gore Vidal ist der fünfte Band seiner Narratives of Empire-Serie, die sich mit der Geschichte und Entwicklung der Vereinigten Staaten beschäftigt. Der Roman spielt zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, einer Zeit des...

With a New IntroductionWashington, D.C., is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire,his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. It offers an illuminating portrait of our republic from...

"Wicked and provocative...Vidal's purview of Hollywood in one of its golden ages is fascinating." —Chicago TribuneIn his brilliant and dazzling new novel, Gore Vidal sweeps us into one of the most fascinating periods of American...

"1876. A Novel" von Gore Vidal ist ein historischer Roman, der die politischen und sozialen Ereignisse des Jahres 1876 in den Vereinigten Staaten beleuchtet. Die Geschichte wird aus der Perspektive von Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler...

In the long-awaited conclusion to his bestselling trilogy, Vidal has written his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. "Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California," he writes, "has an American...