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Title: The Virginian (Classics) by Owen Wister, John D. Seelye ISBN: 0140390650 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42
Rating: 4
Summary: When you call me that, smile!
Comment: This is the classic story by Wister (1860-1938) of the ranch foreman, known only as the Virginian, his courtship of Molly Starkwood, the "schoolmarm" from Vermont, and his conflicts with Trampas. In 1977, the Western Writers of America voted this novel as the top western novel of all time. It probably started the whole genre (even if one counts the pulp fiction popular in the late 19th century). Historians have always pointed out that there never really was a "Code of the West." This was just something thought up by writers, journalists, and film makers. The West was made up of both good and bad men, just as today. But, in my opinion, this book challenges that concept. Wister based his characters on real people he interacted with in the West a few years earlier. There really were men like the Virginian. There really were people who, unknowingly, followed a Code (just as there are today).
Rating: 5
Summary: Would have been a guilty pleasure if the book wasn't so good
Comment: I was in the used book store and I saw this book. The Virginian. "Hm," I thought. "I used to watch that show on television when I was a kid." By Owen Wister. "So, it's a book!" And I though that was pretty cute. Oh, and I liked the cover. The edition that I bought was in the Pulp Fiction section of the book store, that real old book smellin', yellowing pages, origional cover price anywhere between 15 and 99 cents section. So I bought it, read a couple of pages expecting to find out that it was the cheesest thing I'd picked up in a hundred years. And before I even knew what was happening The Virginian, black curly hair in desperate need of a cut, quick draw, lonesome maverick, the new teacher for the one room schoolhouse-yes, even the one room schoolhouse!-all were in my purse, going with me everywhere...Never mind that it's a western, get over yourselves and read this book! It's so much fun. Mr. Wister gives a good story, well told.
Rating: 4
Summary: notyouraveragewestern
Comment: The book "The Virginian" being a western book, I was initially skeptical of it being any better then shoot em up giddyup types of books. However I was quickly taken aback by the fact that they never fully identified the background of the Virginian.
Throughout the entire book he remains a mystery, his whole life a mystique aside from what everyone knew which was he came from the eastern part of the country. With a persona that screams Mad Max "The Road Warrior" he is a modest person who goes for the gusto in his ventures during the book. Working in Wyoming his boss Judge Henry, is not very strong as far as standing up for himself is concerned. When a rival rancher hires some bandits to rob a couple of horses from Henry's ranch, it's the Virginian to the rescue. Eventually the book which includes many other swashbuckling adventures, waters down to a duel between the leader of the Bandits and the Virginian. He even has time for a lovelife in the craziness of the west when he hooks up with a school teacher by the name of Molly Stark. The wedding does not go quite as planned though and I suggest you read the novel to eventually find out what happens. A terific story that has been made into two motion pictures, the plot in Owen Wisters story has more twists then a hostess truckload of strudel. For the person that liked the "Lonesome Dove" mini series this book is for you.
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Title: Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey ISBN: 0812590376 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Shane by Jack Warner Schaefer ISBN: 0553271105 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: October, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Monte Walsh by Jack Warner Schaefer ISBN: 0803291213 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey ISBN: 0812534662 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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