{"product_id":"2026200013647-secondhand-collected-essays","title":"Collected Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew voices in American letters cut as sharply or as brilliantly as Gore Vidal's, and Collected Essays stands as a monument to his unmatched literary intellect and caustic wit. Spanning decades of cultural and political commentary, this volume gathers Vidal's most celebrated non-fiction prose, turning his incisive gaze upon literature, power, sexuality, empire, and the great American myths that both bind and blind a nation.\n\nVidal argues with the ferocity of a polemicist and the elegance of a stylist, dismantling received wisdom with surgical precision and darkly comic flair. His essays range across figures from Henry James to Tennessee Williams, from Presidents to pornographers, each piece a masterclass in the essay form — erudite, combative, and alive with personality. For readers who prize writing that illuminates as much as it provokes, this collection presents an indispensable record of one of the twentieth century's most formidable minds at full stretch — and leaves one wondering just how much of what Vidal warned against has since come to pass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203393364187,"sku":"2026200013647-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0d257b80-8914-4209-978e-d09a1e29eede.png?v=1788148455","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013647-secondhand-collected-essays","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}