The Mammoth Book of Westerns
$39.27
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2013
Summary
The Western, though a singularly American art form, is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned.
Ever since James Fenimore Cooper transformed frontier yarns into a distinct literary form, the Western has followed two paths: one populist - what famously billed ‘the American Morality Play’ - capable of taking many points of view, from red to redneck, but always populist, with a sentimental attach…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780339153 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780339151 |
| Author: | Jon E. Lewis |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 452g |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 198mm x 131mm |
| Series: | Mammoth Books |
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About The Author
Jon E. Lewis
JON E. LEWIS is an historian and author of numerous bestselling books on history and military history, including Voices from D-Day, Voices from the Holocaust, The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War and A Brief History of the First World War. He holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in history and his work has appeared in New Statesman, the Independent, Time Out and the Guardian. He lives in Herefordshire.
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