― Gore Vidal, Lincoln. 1 likes. Like “Seward felt an involuntary shudder in his limbs. He was also ravished by the irony of the moment. For nearly three years, a thousand voices, including his own, had called for a Cromwell, a dictator, a despot; and in all that time, no one had suspected that there had been, from the beginning, a single. In Gore Vidal's Lincoln we meet Lincoln the man and Lincoln the political animal, the president who entered a besieged capital where most of the population supported the South and where even those favoring the Union had serious doubts that the man from Illinois could save it. Far from steadfast in his abhorrence of slavery, Lincoln agonizes Cited by: 7. Free download or read online Lincoln pdf (ePUB) (Narratives of Empire Series) book. The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by Gore Vidal. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this historical, historical fiction story are Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman/5.
Read: Chapter 1 "Lincoln" by Gore Vidal Read: NY Times Book Review: Response: How does Gore Vidal use the style of the novel to bring to life a nonfiction historical topic? Week 9: (3/30 - 4/3) - The Historical Novel II Read: Final Chapter "Lincoln" by Gore Vidal Read: "Gore Vidal on Lincoln"bltadwin.ru Response: How effective is Vidal's final chapter of. by Gore Vidal ‧ RELEASE DATE: J As if to balance the flighty vileness of the lamentable Duluth (), Vidal follows it up with his most sober, unfanciful historical novel yet: a thick, competent, modestly imaginative portrait of Lincoln as President. Lincoln by Vidal, Gore Seller Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB Published Condition Fine. Clean, tight, unread copy. Pristine but for a tiny ding to fore edge of back cover. Signed on a front free end paper, tis Edition Signed Limited Edition Item Price $.
Absolutely yes, in the topsy-turvy world of Gore Vidal's richly entertaining new novel, Lincoln. Not that the better angels of the 16th president's nature are not frequently on view. He forebears. So Vidal starts the novel with Lincoln being sneaked in, unannounced and in disguise, an excellent opening to a story that will pit this strange, perhaps even uncouth, and yet somehow heroic figure against an array of forces that had to be greater than anything he could withstand and would eventually crush him (I’m sorry if that’s a spoiler: to anyone who wasn’t aware that Lincoln’s story did not have a happy ending, I can only say that the novel’s worth reading anyway). Lincoln is a masterwork of historical fiction, in which Gore Vidal combines a comprehensive knowledge of Civil War America with 20th-century literary technique, probing the minds and motives of the men surrounding Abraham Lincoln, including personal secretary John Hay and scheming cabinet members William Seward and Salmon P. Chase, as well as his wife, Mary Todd. It is a book monumental in scope that never loses sight of the intimate and personal in its depiction of the power struggles that.
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