The Desert of Wheat
by Zane Grey
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Harper & Brothers, USA, 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Fair/No Dust Jacket. Paperback. 377 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper & Brothers, USA, 1919. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in fair condition. Dark blue boards with moderate rubbing.. Tanned pages. No inscriptions. Front hinge is severely cracked and binding is very loose. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Published in January 1919. The "i" is missing from "g rl" on page 10, indicating first printing. SYNOPSIS: The Desert Of Wheat is a thrilling and romantic tale of sabotage in the wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest during World War 1. A passionate novel of patriotic and anti-union propaganda, it portrays the anxieties of the young country threatened by a foreign war after the closing of the frontier. Grey captures the heart of a nation at the brink of a century of change. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Western; Inventory No: 12030727..
Reviews
On Apr 12 2020, a reader said:
Whether you are an old hand, or a greenhorn who has heard of Zane Grey and willing to try one of his books, The Desert of Wheat will not disappoint....unless you are expecting cowboys on horses or shoot-outs in the streets. This book has neither, but it does give us a taste of the conditions which existed during the period of years surrounding the 1st World War--especially the activity and philosophy of a group called the IWW. There is espionage, arson, murder, and intrigue all set in the wheat growing district of Washington state known as the Columbia Basin. Also, as with any Zane Grey book the vivid descriptions of landscape and his fully rounded and well developed characters are there, as well as the romance, all heightened amid the backdrop of the War--a German father who hates America; the son who wants to fight for American; the daughter of a rich banker who will do anything to keep the man she loves from going to war. The theme, the intense interaction of the characters involved make for one of the best of Zane Grey. A note of reminder: This was a contemporary novel, written and set and published during the time period it displays, so some of the language may seem dated in places, but true to the period and times. Zane Grey has often been charged with his broad use of colloquialisms, and in some of his later novels it does seem over used, but Zane Grey wrote the way he heard people speak. I highly recommend this version if you can not find or afford the unexpurgated version recently published in 2012 War Comes to the Big Bend.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12030727
- Title
- The Desert of Wheat
- Author
- Zane Grey
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Desert of Wheat
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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