The Virginian

by Wister, Owen

Reprint; Fourth Printing

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Book Description

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Reprint; Fourth Printing. Paperback. Very good, with minimal shelf wear, slight curling of covers and wrinkle on pg 41. ; Trade PB; B&W Illustrations; 1.06 x 7.99 x 5.37; 434 pages; Dime novels had featured som rather scrawny horse-bound tenders of cattle, but not until 1902 did the cowboy become a fully realized article of American culture. That year Owen Wister, a native of Philadelphia, published the novel that established the conventions of the western. An immediate bestseller, it has never faded from public consciousness. Suddenly there was the natural aristocrat, the Virginian, who faced down the archetypal villain, Trampas, flinging at him the unforgettable words "When you call me that, smile!" There was the eastern schoolteacher, Molly, far from being a wilted flower. They moved in teh raw, bracing atmosphere that generations of readers and moviegoers would come to expect from westerns. To read THE VIRGINIAN, again or for the first time, is to enter a cultural phenomenon. The Bison Book makes available once more the memorable 1929 edition that brought together the art of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. It adds an introduction by one of today's most brilliant creators of rugged individualists. Thomas McGuane. The author of NOBODY'S ANGEL (1982) and KEEP THE CHANGE (1989). McGuane shows how THE VIRGINIAN "bears all the advantages and disadvantages of being a precursor. .

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