Gore Vidal — Works by Gore Vidal

New York , Random House, 1987-1992. First edition. Cloth. Three wonderful volumes of work by the American writer Gore Vidal. Three volumes by American writer Gore Vidal. This set of three volumes includes a copy of the first Random House Edition, in its second impression, of Empire, which is a detailed and brilliantly imagined portrait of a turn-of-the-century American in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War.At Home is a collection of essays from 1982-1988, which brings together twenty-four of Vidal's most stimulating and provocative essays on subjects ranging from Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Hollywood. This is a copy of the First American edition. Live from Golgotha, the Gospel According to Gore Vidal, is an irreverent spoof of the New Testament and the novel shifts in time as Saint Timothy and Saint Paul combat a mysterious hacker from the future who is deleting all traces of Christianity.  Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known his wit and novel that interrogated social and cultural sexual norms.All three are in the original unclipped dust wrappers. All three volumes are in the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart indeed. Internally, all three volumes are firmly bound with bright and clean pages. All three are in the original unclipped dust wrappers which are also very smart with some light chipping to the head of the spine of Empire. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.