THE ESSENTIAL GORE VIDAL
Language: English
Published by Random House, NY, 1999
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
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First edition, first prnt. Edited by Fred Kaplan. Introduction, biographical chronology and bibliography. Signed by Vidal on a tipped-in front free endpage as issued. One of an unspecified number of copies as such. Rear endpage with a one inch tear on the bottom edge, a shallow crease on the bottom corner of the last few pages and a wrinkle on the spine topedge. Very Good condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.
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- Title
- THE ESSENTIAL GORE VIDAL
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Publisher
- Random House, NY
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcovers
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679457461
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457466
- Edition
- First Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
He writes about other writers--Tennessee Williams, Henry James, Montaigne, Edmund Wilson--and about public life, and his own life, which has been complicated and rich. This collection (the only single volume that includes both Vidal's fiction and his essays) contains two complete long works--Myra Breckinridge, perhaps his most famous novel, and The Best Man, a play about the American presidency. There are selections from The City and the Pillar, his early, controversial novel about homosexual love, and excerpts from such later works as Julian, Duluth, and Live from Golgotha. Selections from the American history novels--Burr, Lincoln, 1876, Empire, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C.--have been woven together to provide a continuous narrative. There are twenty-five essays here, on the many subjects that have engaged Vidal during his long career. The editor, Fred Kaplan, who is writing the first major biography of Vidal, has provided an introduction to the work as a whole as well as an introductory explanation of each selection. He has also prepared a biographical chronology and a bibliography.
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About the Author
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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