Télécharger le livre :  A Search For The King
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Kidnapped and held to ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria after the Third Crusade, Richard the Lion Heart, it is said, was found by his faithful troubadour Blondel de Neel. But how? And what trials did the faithful and long-suffering lyricist have to overcome to find his...

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Parution : 2025-12-12

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Télécharger le livre :  The Smithsonian Institution
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Good Friday, 1939, and T., a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The museum is closed, but T. manages to slip in, and it would appear that somehow, he is expected. An old man, Bentsen, shows him around, and T. realises that...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Judgement Of Paris
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The fast and furious hedonistic world of the jet-set commuting between the glamour centres of Europe is the setting for this famous novel by one of the twentieth century's most remarkable writers.Philip Warren is a personable young American who moves amongst the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Season Of Comfort
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By the bestselling and celebrated Gore Vidal, a novel about a brilliant and precocious schoolboy whose parents separate when he is young, and whose mother is portrayed as a 'monster'A novel based on the emotional conflict centered around a son's urge to sever the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Palimpsest: A Memoir
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Vidal onVidal - a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subjectPalimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty-nine years of his life as a novelist, dramatist, critic, political activist and candidate, screenwriter,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Julian
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The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novelsJulian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The City And The Pillar
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A literary cause célèbre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experienceJim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door, is haunted by the memory of a romantic adolescent...

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Télécharger le livre :  Myra Breckinridge And Myron
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Everyone is talking about Myra Breckinridge - and everything you have heard about her is true'I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess.'So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama...

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Télécharger le livre :  Lincoln
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In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-08-08
Collection : Narratives of empire
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Télécharger le livre :  Burr
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Gore Vidal's classic novel of Aaron Burr - the man who shot Alexander Hamilton.In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for...

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Télécharger le livre :  1876
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With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics. And this is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner...

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Télécharger le livre :  Hollywood
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Continuing what has been dubbed his 'revenge on two hundred years of American history', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America's capital as the nation's power-base, just as it fights for centre-stage in...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-07-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Washington D C
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History is gossip,' says a protagonist in Washington, D.C., 'but the trick is determining which gossip is history.' It is a trick that Gore Vidal has mastered in his ongoing chronicle of that circus of opportunism and hypocrisy called American politics and which he...

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Parution : 2025-07-31
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