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Owen Wister (1860–1938)

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Owen Wister was born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 14, 1860. He graduated from Harvard University in 1882 and studied musical composition in Paris for two years. He spent the summer of 1885 in Wyoming for his health. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1888 and was admitted to the bar in näytä lisää 1889. He practiced law for two years in Philadelphia and continued to spend his summers in the West. In 1891, after the acceptance by Harper's of two of his Western sketches, he decided to pursue a literary career. His works included Lin McLean, The Virginian, Lady Baltimore, and Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919. He also wrote a number of children's books. He died on July 21, 1938. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset

Lady Baltimore (1906) 62 kappaletta
Lin McLean (1907) 53 kappaletta
Classic Westerns (Leather-bound Classics) (2017) — Avustaja — 51 kappaletta
The Pentecost of Calamity (1915) 24 kappaletta
Red Men and White (1896) 21 kappaletta
Ulysses S. Grant (2012) 19 kappaletta
The Seven Ages of Washington (1907) 17 kappaletta
Members of the Family (2007) 15 kappaletta
When West Was West (1935) 11 kappaletta
The Virginian: The Complete First Season (2010) — Original novel — 6 kappaletta
Mother (2004) 4 kappaletta
Neighbors Henceforth (1928) 3 kappaletta
The Virginian [2000 TV movie] (2000) — Writer — 2 kappaletta
Specimen Jones 1 kappale
Ecologues 1 kappale

Associated Works

The Family Mark Twain (1935) — Avustaja — 435 kappaletta
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories (1982) — Avustaja — 101 kappaletta
The Rise of Silas Lapham [Norton Critical Edition] (1885) — Avustaja — 98 kappaletta
The illustrations of Frederic Remington (1952) — commentator — 68 kappaletta
Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset58 kappaletta
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico (1914) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset56 kappaletta
Great Tales of the American West (1945) — Avustaja — 43 kappaletta
Great Tales of the West (1982) — Avustaja — 30 kappaletta
King Solomon's Mines and Other Adventure Classics (2016) — Avustaja — 29 kappaletta
The Romance of the Last Crusade (1923) — Esipuhe — 20 kappaletta
Done in the Open (1900) — Johdanto — 20 kappaletta
Confederate Battle Stories (Civil War Series) (1992) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta
Great Western short stories (1777) — Avustaja — 9 kappaletta
Representative American Short Stories — Avustaja — 5 kappaletta
Yellowstone Reader (2003) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
Other days (1921) — Esipuhe — 1 kappale

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The Virginian, Westerns (huhtikuu 2012)

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BooksInMirror | 41 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 19, 2024 |
Classic western writen in 1902. Fun read.
 
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bentstoker | 41 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 26, 2024 |
Owen Wister, best known for his classic western The Virginian, published this little Christmas western story in 1904. It’s a fun and charming story of a cowboy who arrives in Cheyanne, Wyoming after a long cattle drive at Christmas time in 1887. With his pockets full of a few month’s worth of pay, Lin McLean’s original plan was to get sauced during the holiday. Then he comes upon an old friend who invites him to go Christmas shopping with him. The Governor/Doctor has a long list of constituent’s and patient’s children he intends to buy for. As Lin follows his friend in the quest for gifts, he soon discovers the spirit of Christmas that has eluded him for most of his life.
A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF CHRISTMAS is a really nice choice for holiday reading, especially if you like stories from Victorian times set in the American West. The prose reminded me of Dickens, just not quite as long-winded.
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MickeyMole | Dec 28, 2023 |
Westerns were never on the list of genres I had an interest in. I tried to read All the Pretty Horses once and got so depressed I couldn’t finish. However, The Virginian is a classic that started it all, first published in 1902. I once heard a man say it taught him how to be a man. It is the prototype for the man with no name, the strong silent type. He starts as a cow poke, becomes the trusted hand of a Wyoming judge, and routs the bad guys. He loves animals, nature, and the local school marm. Civilizing the wild west, he makes his fortune and happily weds his girl. Every western tale since has drawn from this story.… (lisätietoja)
 
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varielle | 41 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Nov 18, 2023 |

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