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The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal | |
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About 82 pages (24,730 words) in 7 products |
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| Name: |
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal | | Variant Name: |
Gore Vidal | | Birth Date: |
October 3, 1925 | | Place of Birth: |
West Point, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
1349 words, approx. 4.5 pages
 Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born 1925) was one of America's most prominent literary figures on the basis of an enormous quantity of work, including novels, essays, plays, and short stories. He was also well known to the public through frequent appearances... summary from source:
Biography of Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
8912 words, approx. 29.7 pages
 "Gore Vidal wasn't what I set out to be ... ," Gore Vidal quipped in the 18 November 1974 Newsweek, "but I don't mind what I've become." What he has become is one of America's preeminent novelists, a prolific writer whose novels and collec- tions of essa... summary from source:
 Biography of Gore Vidal
7607 words, approx. 25.4 pages
" Gore Vidal wasn't what I set out to be...," Gore Vidal quipped in the 18 November 1974 Newsweek, "but I don't mind what I've become." What he has become is one of America's preeminent novelists, a prolific writer whose novels and collections of essays...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The City and the Pillar Information
1,081 words, approx. 4 pages
The City and the Pillar is the third novel by American writer and essayist Gore Vidal. First published in 1948, it sparked a public scandal for being the first book by an American author to deal quite openly with homosexuality. Twenty years later, Vidal...
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 The Washington Post This City's Real Pillars
06/03/2000: 1,143 words, approx. 4 pages Edward Flattau began his May 21 letter: "(1) I am a Caucasian. (2) I have a daughter at [omitted] school and a son who graduated in '97. . . . (3) My city council representative is [Kathy] Patterson." Flattau said he thought D.C.... summary from source:
Evening Standard - London Pillar builds in Fulham City Briefing
05/25/2000: 372 words, approx. 1 pages WORK has started at Fulham Broadway Tube station that will provide a Cinema complex, 12 shops, a Sainsbury's supermarket and five new restaurants. Retail parks operator Pillar Property, which is developing the 64 million site, saw pre-tax profits slip to 21.8 million from...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by Gregory Woods
926 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Woods offers an unfavorable assessment of Vidal's revised version of The City and the Pillar, which, according to Woods, muddles rather than improves the original. Woods also comments on A Thirsty Evil, which he regards as significant to the history of gay literature, though the individual stories are unremarkable.
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The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal | |
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About 82 pages (24,730 words) in 7 products |
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