The Essential Gore Vidal. [hardcover]
by Vidal, Gore
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Near Fine/Very Good+ dj. (appears unread, no writings. jacket complete/clean, security device removal scar on reverse, no edge t
- ISBN 10
- 0679457461
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457466
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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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- Booktopia (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2071515
- Title
- The Essential Gore Vidal. [hardcover]
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/Very Good+ dj. (appears unread, no writings. jacket complete/clean, security device removal scar on reverse, no edge t
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679457461
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457466
- Publisher
- Random House.
- Place of Publication
- NY.
- Date Published
- (c1999).
- Pages
- xxx. + 988pp. + blanks.
- Keywords
- 20th Century American Literature Literary Essays Criticism Gore Vidal Anthology
- Size
- 8vo.
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