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Book Description
Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history -- this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C. -- and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations. We meet a vast array of historical figures in a staggering novel of love, waContinue
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lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010
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The Wise Lord and the Lie
Supposing that Sinbad had been not merely a resourceful trader but a sophisticated Graeco-Persian of the mid-fifth century BC; an orthodox Zoroastrian, an expert diplomat with an insatiable curiosity about alien civilizations and, in particular, abou ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Others 510 Pages
- Edition: 1st ed
- ISBN-10: 0394519957
- ISBN-13: 9780394519951
- Publisher: Random House
- Pub date: Jan 01, 1981
- Also available as: Paperback and Hardcover
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780394519951 | Others | $15.95 | -- | The Book Depository |
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Wingedroc 
Imperial Dope
Creation is a novel that describes, creates and analyses history, and it is not the first of Gore Vidal’s novels to do so. He has already devoted a lengthy trilogy to American history, and Julian, though set some eight hundred years later than Creati ... (read full critics)