The Virginian : A Horseman of the Plains Paperback / softback
by Owen Wister
Edited by Robert (Professor of English and American Studies, Professor of English and American Studie Shulman
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
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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 of the country' must eventually prevail.
Rich in vernacular wit and portraying a romanticized escape from the decorum of the patrician East, The Virginian exudes a sense of redemptive possibility, drawing on Wister's experience of a summer spent on a Wyoming ranch in 1895.
This edition includes Wister's neglected essay, `The Evolution of the Cow-Puncher' (1895), a revealing companion to a novel that has disturbing undercurrents.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/03/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199554102
