The Judgment of Paris, Gore Vidal
The Judgment of Paris, Gore Vidal
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The Judgment of Paris

Author: Gore Vidal

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Unabridged: 13 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/17/2020

Synopsis

Master storyteller Gore Vidal’s 1952 classic.The fast and furious hedonistic world of the jet-set commuting between the glamour centres of Europe is the setting for this famous novel by one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable writers.Philip Warren is a personable young American who moves amongst the international demi-gods of wealth and status in search of himself and a future, which will satisfy his part cynical, part romantic outlook.

About Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit

Who will eat an apple? What will one choose: power, knowledge or love? Similar to the ancient legend, before the hero of the novel there are three women each symbolizing one of these three aspects of existence. But the place is Europe and the time is the middle of the twentieth century and the entoura......more

Goodreads review by MJ

Titled after one of those devilishly entertaining tales from Greek myth (which all erudite authors must refer to in their novels if they ever want to make it big—no shirking now!), Gore Vidal’s seventh novel (written aged 27!) makes things happen in Rome, Cairo and Paris. Indecisive aesthete (and la......more

Goodreads review by Gene

I was actually pretty proud of myself, reading a Gore Vidal novel. Okay, sadly, it's because Brian Griffin from the Family Guy is a fan of Gore Vidal. But whatever, I was sort of holding it up on the subway, trying to impress this rather striking girl with red bouncy hair who works as an editor at a......more

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