Gore - Fiction & Literature 1

Continue your journey through the greatest works ever written. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die – Volume 2 expands your literary adventure with another carefully selected collection o……続きを見る

Julian the Apostate was the nephew of Emperor Constantine the Great. Julian ascended to the throne in A.D. 361, at the age of twenty-nine, and was murdered four years later after an unsuccessful att……続きを見る

In the tiny Central American republic of Tenango, a place of orchid--scented jungle, crumbling palaces and baroque cathedrals, the rainy season is over and the dusty days of winter have begun. It is……続きを見る

By night the glittering world of Times Square, cinemas, clubs and the brittle, played-out demi-monde . . . by day a wasteland of hollow men, lonely apartments and empty morning coffee stands . . . R……続きを見る

Two Sisters is Gore Vidal's fictional memoir of a love affair with a beautiful set of twins in post-war Paris - a story skilfully interwoven with notebooks, diaries and the vivid fragment of a scree……続きを見る

From the poignant realisation as an adult of the cruel brutality of childhood in 'The Robin', man then comes face to face with himself as a boy in 'A Moment of Green Laurel': both stories combining ……続きを見る

Here is the story of arguably America's finest hour; of the time when the twentieth century dawned, Queen Victoria died, and America, basking deliciously in excess wealth, rather thought it might sn……続きを見る

"The Crater By Robert Gore-Browne" by ROBERT GORE-BROWNE is a classic work that represents the essence of its genre. This book offers readers an engaging experience, reflecting the author’s distinct……続きを見る

"The Crater By Robert Gore-Browne" by ROBERT GORE-BROWNE is a classic work that represents the essence of its genre. This book offers readers an engaging experience, reflecting the author’s distinct……続きを見る

Mentre Woodrow Wilson trascina gli Stati Uniti nella prima guerra mondiale, a Washington è già iniziata, con tre anni di anticipo, la corsa alle elezioni del 1920, che vede contrapporsi vecchi e nu……続きを見る

Tempestoso romanzo corale, Washington D.C. racconta le vicende personali, familiari, politiche e mondane di numerosi personaggi nel contesto storico che abbraccia gli anni della fine del New Deal, l……続きを見る

"And yet I will persist in believing that there is such a thing as the harmony of completeness in humanity.." A compendium of lectures delivered by Tagore during the First World War and the Swadeshi……続きを見る

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged by authors' last names: Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] Beauty And The Beast [Barbot de Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne] The Law [Frédéric B……続きを見る

Rabindranath Tagore's collection of poetry showcases the lyrical beauty and profound depth for which he is renowned. His poems seamlessly blend spiritual and existential themes with vivid imagery an……続きを見る

An awkward visit to a nude beach. A bike-pedaling angel careening through rush-hour traffic. The mystery of a sandwich found in a bathroom stall. A lyric, rainy-day ramble through the East Village. ……続きを見る

"In this powerful collection of poems, Rekha Gore captures the raw journey of a soul burdened by pain, misplaced trust, and the fight for survival. In giving everything to others, she lost herselfー……続きを見る

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 c……続きを見る

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 i……続きを見る

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 novels Juli……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

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. P……続きを見る

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 di……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

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 experience Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and c……続きを見る

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 lus……続きを見る

Vidal on Vidal - a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subject Palimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty-nine years of his life as a novelist, d……続きを見る

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 o……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

Ce collectif, coordonné par Orphée Goré et Isidore Bikoko, réunit des spécialistes d’Afrique, d’Europe et d’Asie autour du thème des couleurs et des senteurs dans l’œuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio, Prix N……続きを見る