Selected Essays

Selected EssaysAuthor: Gore Vidal ISBN: 9780349120454 Publisher: Little Brown Year first published: 01 Feb 2008 Pages: 464 Format: Paperback softback 'Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' John Simpson, Daily Mail This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his fifty year writing career. With mercurial intelligence and often

last Empress of Imperial Russia—and her sister

Napoleon Bonaparte has been too often the victim of biographical revisionism that treats him either as a demi-god or as devil incarnate

The message of what can be accomplished by training through affection and joy will thrill all animal lovers

a visiting professor of art at the university

She has since explored the way we talk at work

Though she has many doubts

The Lynching brings to life two dramatic trials

No Humans Involved

But Max and the team must learn to work together quickly

As Warren once said

Dylan Thomas's fatal collapse on the floor of a Greenwich Village tavern is preceded by a fortnight of almost suicidal excess

we had watched polar bears for a few minutes