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The Essential Gore Vidal : A Gore Vidal Reader
by Vidal, Gore
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0679457461
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457466
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Synopsis
Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, appeared in the spring of 1946, when he was nineteen years old and just out of the Army. Since then he has written twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir. Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Thomas Carlyle: A Biography; Charles Dickens: A Biography; and Henry James: The Imagination of a Genius.
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 157883
- Title
- The Essential Gore Vidal : A Gore Vidal Reader
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679457461
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457466
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
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