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Owen Wister's powerful story of the silent stranger who rides into the uncivilized West and defeats the forces of evil embodies one of the most enduring themes in American mythology. Set in the vast Wyoming territory, The Virginian (1902) captures both the grandeur and the loneliness of the frontier experience, brilliantly evoking the tension between the romantic freedom of the great, untamed landscape and mankind's deep-seated desire for community and social order. Wister brings to life the honesty and rough justice that ruled the range and the civilizing influence of determined women in frontier settlements that imposed a sense of society on an unruly population. For Wister, the West tested a man's true worth. His hero-influenced by those of Sir Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper-is a man who lives by the classic code of chivalry, ruled by quiet courage and a deeply felt sense of honor.
As the American West opened up to settlers after the Civil War, people were eager for tales of great adventures, endless possibilities, and the pioneering spirit. Classic Westerns is a collection of six novels that captured this sense of exploration and brought the rugged landscape into the homes of readers everywhere. These novels—The Virginian by Owen Wister, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, The Lone Star Ranger and The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey, and Gunman’s Reckoning and The Untamed by Max Brand—tell of life on the open plains, in dusty outposts, and alongside majestic mountain ranges that rose to greet travelers who ventured forth into the unexplored country to find their destinies.
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.
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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years
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