The Essential Works Of Owen Wister

Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1011 pages
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Release : 2023-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547768968

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The Essential Works of Owen Wister by Owen Wister Pdf

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister's most famous work remains the novel The Virginian, set in the Wild West. It describes the life of a cowboy who is a natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large land owners. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, and several others. It is also widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel. Table of Contents: The Dragon of Wantley Lin McLean The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University Lady Baltimore Padre Ignacio: or, the Song of Temptation Red Man and White Little Big Horn Medicine Specimen Jones The Serenade At Siskiyuo The General's Bluff Salvation Gap The Second Missouri Compromise La Tinaja Bonita A Pilgrim on the Gila The Jimmyjohn Boss A Kinsman of Red Cloud Sharon's Choice Napoleon Shave-Tail Twenty Minutes for Refreshments The Promised Land Hank's Woman Mother How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee Non-Fiction: Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat The Pentecost of Calamity A Straight Deal; Or, The Ancient Grudge

Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 1271 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456618681

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The Essential Owen Wister Collection by Owen Wister Pdf

The essential collection of books and poetry by Owen Wister:Table Of ContentsTHE DRAGON OF WANTLEYHow doth the Simple Spelling BeeTHE JIMMYJOHN BOSS AND OTHER STORIESLADY BALTIMORELIN McLEANMOTHERPADRE IGNACIOPHILOSOPHY 4RED MEN AND WHITEA STRAIGHT DEALTHE VIRGINIAN

Author : James A. Butler
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780271030906

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Romney by James A. Butler Pdf

Owen Wister is known to most Americans as the creator of the heroic cowboy in The Virginian (1902). Despite his success as a Western novelist, Wister's failure to write about his native city of Philadelphia has been lamented by many for the loss of a literary "might-have-been." If only, sighed Wister's contemporary Elizabeth Robins Pennell in 1914, the novelist could understand that Philadelphia was as good a subject as the Wild West. Hence the surprise when James Butler uncovered a substantial fragment of a Philadelphia novel, which Wister intended to call Romney. Here, published for the first time, is the complete fragment of Romney together with two of his other unpublished Philadelphia works. Even in its incomplete state—nearly fifty thousand words—Romney is Wister's longest piece of fiction after The Virginian and Lady Baltimore. Writing at the express command of his friend Theodore Roosevelt, Wister set Romney in Philadelphia (called Monopolis in the novel) during the 1880s, when, as he saw it, the city was passing from the old to a new order. The hero of the story, Romney, is a man of "no social position" who nonetheless rises to the top because he has superior ability. It is thus a novel about the possibilities for meaningful social change in a democracy. Although, alas, the story breaks off before the birth of Romney, Wister gives us much to savor in the existing thirteen chapters. We are treated to delightful scenes at the Bryn Mawr train station, the Bellevue Hotel, and Independence Square, which yield brilliant insights into life on the Main Line, the power of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the insidious effects of political corruption. Wister's acute analysis in Romney of what differentiates Philadelphia and Boston upper classes is remarkably similar to, but anticipates by more than half a century, the classic study by E. Digby Baltzell in Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (1979). Like Baltzell, Wister analyzes the urban aristocracy of Boston and Philadelphia, finding in Boston a Puritan drive for achievement and civic service but in Philadelphia a Quaker preference for toleration and moderation, all too often leading to acquiescence and stagnation. Romney is undoubtedly the best fictional portrayal of "Gilded Age" Philadelphia, brilliantly capturing Wister's vision of old-money, aristocratic society gasping its last before the onrushing vulgarity of the nouveaux riches. It is a novel of manners that does for Philadelphia what Edith Wharton and John Marquand have done for New York and Boston.

Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783969692240

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Essential Novelists - Owen Wister by Owen Wister Pdf

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Owen Wister which are The Virginian and Lady Baltimore. Owen Wister was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction. His most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian, a complex mixture of persons, places and events dramatized from experience, word of mouth, and his own imagination – ultimately creating the archetypal cowboy. This is widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel. Novels selected for this book: The Virginian. Lady Baltimore. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 3833 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547680635

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Chronicles of Barsetshire - Complete Edition (All 6 Books in One Edition) by Anthony Trollope Pdf

The Chronicles of Barsetshire (or Barchester Chronicles) is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire (located approximately where the real Dorset lies) and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manœuvrings that go on among and between them. The novels in the series are: The Warden (1855) Barchester Towers (1857) Doctor Thorne (1858) Framley Parsonage (1861) The Small House at Allington (1864) The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters. Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era.

Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775455219

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The Virginian by Owen Wister Pdf

This groundbreaking novel is considered by many to be one of the most important early entries in the western genre. Recounting in rich detail the daily life of a foreman on a vast ranch in Wyoming, this gripping tale has sparked imaginations for more than a century, inspiring at least six film and television versions.

Author : B. M. Bower
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 5216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547812371

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Western Classics, Historical Novels & Tales of the Old West by B. M. Bower (Illustrated) by B. M. Bower Pdf

Bertha Muzzy Bower (1871-1940) was an American author who wrote novels and short stories about the American Old West. She is best known for her first novel "Chip of the Flying U" about Flying U Ranch and the "Happy Family" of cowboys who lived there. The novel rocketed Bower to fame, and she wrote an entire series of novels set at the Flying U Ranch. Several of Bower's novels were turned into films. Content: Flying U Series Chip of the Flying U The Flying U Ranch The Flying U's Last Stand The Phantom Herd The Heritage of the Sioux The Happy Family Ananias Green Blink Miss Martin's Mission Happy Jack, Wild Man A Tamer of Wild Ones Andy, the Liar "Wolf! Wolf!" Fool's Gold Lords of the Pots and Pans The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories The Lonesome Trail First Aid to Cupid When the Cook Fell Ill The Lamb The Spirit of the Range The Reveler The Unheavenly Twins Other Novels The Range Dwellers The Lure of the Dim Trails Her Prairie Knight Rowdy of the "Cross L" The Long Shadow Good Indian Lonesome Land The Gringos The Uphill Climb The Ranch at the Wolverine Jean of the Lazy 'A' The Lookout Man Starr of the Desert Cabin Fever Skyrider The Thunder Bird Rim O' the World The Quirt (Sawtooth Ranch) Cow Country Casey Ryan The Trail of the White Mule

Author : Andy Adams
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547812395

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The Log of the Cowboy and Other Trail Tales – 5 Western Novels in One Volume by Andy Adams Pdf

"The Log of a Cowboy" is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana during 1882 along the Great Western Cattle Trail. Although the book is fiction, it is based on Adams's own experiences, and it is considered by many to be literature's best account of cowboy life. Adams was disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published in his time; The Log of a Cowboy was his response. The Chicago Herald has said: "As a narrative of cowboy life, Andy Adams' book is clearly the real thing. It carries its own certificate of authentic first-hand experience on every page." This edition also includes Adams other famous western novels like The Outlet, A Texas Matchmaker, Reed Anthony, Cowman and The Wells Brothers. Andy Adams (1859–1935) was an American writer of western fiction and was born in Indiana. Since childhood Andy used to help his parents with the cattle and horses on the family farm. Due to this Andy's works have been lauded widely for his first hand and authentic portrayal of the life of a cowboy unlike his contemporaries like Owen Wister who romanticized it.

Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732662623

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Red Men and White by Owen Wister Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Red Men and White by Owen Wister

Author : Owen Wister,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783968586618

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7 best short stories by Owen Wister by Owen Wister,August Nemo Pdf

Owen Wister was an American novelist whose novel The Virginian (1902) helped establish the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and the western as a legitimate genre of literature. The Virginian is the prototypical western novel and, arguably, the work most responsible for the romanticized view of the West that is an important part of American cultural identity. This book contains: - The Jimmyjohn Boss. - A Kinsman of Red Cloud. - Sharon's Choice. - Napoleon Shave-Tail. - Twenty Minutes for Refreshments. - The Promised Land. - Hank's Woman.

Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1978-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0849229545

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Roosevelt by Owen Wister Pdf

Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 137761333X

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The Dragon of Wantley: His Rise, His Voracity, & His Downfall, a Romance / By Owen Wister; Illustrations by John Stewardson by Owen Wister Pdf

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Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434490322

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Neighbors Henceforth by Owen Wister Pdf

Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical hero. Wister helped to create the basic Western myths and themes, which were later popularized by radio, television, and movies.

Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : J.S. Sanders Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781461713784

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Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister Pdf

The classic novel of post-Civil War Charleston life, a portrayal of the process of healing the wounds of war through reconciliation between Northerners and Southerners on a personal, not political, level. Southern Classics Series.

Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547390497

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The Collected Western Classics of Owen Wister by Owen Wister Pdf

This edition includes: Lin McLean The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains Red Man and White Red Man and White Little Big Horn Medicine Specimen Jones The Serenade At Siskiyuo The General's Bluff Salvation Gap The Second Missouri Compromise La Tinaja Bonita A Pilgrim on the Gila The Jimmyjohn Boss A Kinsman of Red Cloud Sharon's Choice Napoleon Shave-Tail Twenty Minutes for Refreshments The Promised Land Hank's Woman Padre Ignacio: or, the Song of Temptation Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister's most famous work remains the novel The Virginian, set in the Wild West. It describes the life of a cowboy who is a natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large land owners. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, and several others. It is also widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel.