Selected Essays of Gore VidalKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 16. jún. 2009 - 480 síður 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 personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. It will stand as one of the most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature. |
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Novelists and Critics of the 1940s 1953 | 3 |
Tarzan Revisited 1963 | 17 |
The Top Ten BestSellers According to the Sunday | 23 |
Theories of the New Novel 1967 | 47 |
The Matter of Fiction 1974 | 73 |
Calvinos Novels 1974 | 101 |
The Hacks of Academe 1976 | 123 |
Some Memories of the Glorious Bird | 135 |
READING THE WORLD | 265 |
Pornography 1966 | 289 |
The Holy Family 1967 | 303 |
Homage to Daniel Shays 1972 | 323 |
Pink Triangle and Yellow Star 1981 | 339 |
An American Sissy 1981 | 357 |
The Second American Revolution 1981 | 373 |
The National Security State 1988 | 399 |
This Critic and This | 155 |
William Dean Howells 1983 | 167 |
The American Writer 1987 | 193 |
Montaigne 1992 | 225 |
Rabbits Own Burrow 1996 | 239 |
Monotheism and Its Discontents 1992 | 409 |
Black Tuesday 2002 | 417 |
State of the Union 2004 | 451 |
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