Gore Vidal

Rzymski cesarz, filozof, żołnierz, reformator, poeta. Jedna z najbarwniejszych postaci starożytności. Geniusz wojenny dorównujący poziomowi Juliuszowi Cezarowi i Aleksandrowi Wielkiemu. Oddany bogom hellenistycznym, walczy z chrześcijaństwem. Traci życie w wieku trzydziestu dwóch lat.Nad powieścią unosi się klimat końca starego świata zastępowanego...

A NovelBurr is the opening volume in Gore Vidal's great fictional chronicle of American history, each of which is being republished in the Modern Library .BurrFrom the Hardcover edition....

A NovelLincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a...

A NovelEmpire, the fourth novel in Gore Vidal's monumental six-volume chronicle of the American past, is his prodigiously detailed portrait of the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century as it begins to emerge as a world power.------While America struggles to define its destiny, beautiful and ambitious Caroline Sanford fights to...

Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire, his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States.It is 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry is born that will irreversibly transform...

In Death Before Bedtime, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is invited to the home of a venerable senator to help strategize his imminent run for president. On the night before he's to announce, though, the senator is murdered in his bed. No longer needed as a political publicist, Sargent finds himself helping the police find the killer. He deftly...