An edition of The Virginian (1902)

The Virginian

a horseman of the plains

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The Virginian
Owen Wister
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An edition of The Virginian (1902)

The Virginian

a horseman of the plains

  • 4.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 20 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and a significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a beautiful, baffling, and sometimes violent land where the handsome figure of the Virginian battles Trampas for supremacy and demonstrates that the "customs of the country" must eventually prevail. In his courtship of the Vermont schoolteacher, Molly Wood, the Virginian encounters a battle of a different kind. Rich in vernacular wit and portraying a romanticized escape from the decorum of the patrician East, The Virginian conveys a sense of redemptive possibility drawing on Wister's ranching, hunting, and fishing trips in Wyoming and Montana between 1885 and 1900. This edition includes Wister's neglected essay, "The Evolution of the Cow-puncher" (1895), a revealing companion to a novel that has disturbing undercurrents. - Back cover.

Publish Date
Publisher
Signet Classic
Language
English
Pages
334

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The Virginian: a horseman of the Plains
1998, Oxford University Press
Paperback in English
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1996, Morang
Microform in English
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Virginian: horseman of the plains
1995, Wordsworth
in English - New ed.
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1995, Gramercy Books, Distributed by Random House Value Pub.
in English
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1988, Reader's Digest Association
in English
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1984, Citadel Press
in English
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1979, Signet Classic
in English
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The Virginian: a horseman of the Plains.
1956, Pocket Books, Pocket
in English
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Cover of: The Virginian
The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1917, The Macmillan company
in English
Cover of: The Virginian

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-334).

Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3345 .V5 1979

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 334 p. ;
Number of pages
334

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22934270M
ISBN 10
0451523253
Library Thing
44952
Goodreads
1808348

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