The Virginian
A Horseman of the Plains
$29.97
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2009
Summary
The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister’s classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a strange, seductive and often violent land where the handsome figure of the Virginian battles for supremacy with Trampas and other ne’er-do-wells. His courtship of the genteel Vermont schoolteacher, Molly Wood, is a humourously observed battle of the sexes, demonstrating that the ‘customs …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199554102 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199554102 |
| Author: | Owen Wister, Robert Shulman |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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An excellent edition. / Rhys Williams, Warwick University
An excellent edition. / Rhys Williams, Warwick University
About The Author
Owen Wister
Robert Shulman is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Washington.
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