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The Golden Age by Gore Vidal | |
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About 88 pages (26,251 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...
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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...
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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 Golden Age Information
441 words, approx. 2 pages
 The Golden Age, a historical novel published in 2000 by Gore Vidal, is the seventh and allegedly final novel in his "Narratives of Empire"...


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 The Boston Globe
Nuggets Fuel Vidal's `golden Age'
10/29/2000: 1,002 words, approx. 3 pages Gore Vidal's "The Golden Age" lasts a mere 14 years. It opens with the Roosevelt-Willkie election of 1940 and ends just after the Korean War (a brief coda brings us up to the millennium celebrations). In between we have Eleanor and Franklin, the Second...
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 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Vidal's `Golden Age' lacks luster of his earlier works
09/17/2000: 667 words, approx. 2 pages Vidal's 'Golden Age' lacks luster of his earlier works By JOHN FREEMAN Special to the Journal Sentinel Sunday, September 17, 2000 The Golden Age. By Gore Vidal. Doubleday. 448 pages. $27.50. More than any other writer of the last...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Hugo Barnacle
794 words, approx. 3 pages
 In the following review, Barnacle offers a positive assessment of The Golden Age, despite its several historical inaccuracies and American slant.


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