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Owen Wister (1860–1938)

Autor/a de The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

54+ obres 2,786 Membres 53 Ressenyes 2 preferits

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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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Owen Wister

Lady Baltimore (1906) 62 exemplars
Lin McLean (1907) 53 exemplars
Classic Westerns (Leather-bound Classics) (2017) — Col·laborador — 51 exemplars
The Pentecost of Calamity (1915) 23 exemplars
Red Men and White (1896) 21 exemplars
Ulysses S. Grant (2012) 19 exemplars
The Seven Ages of Washington (1907) 17 exemplars
Members of the Family (2007) 15 exemplars
When West Was West (1935) 11 exemplars
The Virginian: The Complete First Season (2010) — Original novel — 6 exemplars
Mother (2004) 4 exemplars
Neighbors Henceforth (1928) 3 exemplars
The Virginian [2000 TV movie] (2000) — Writer — 2 exemplars
Owen Wister papers 1 exemplars
The Eight Hours Day 1 exemplars
Poverty and Waste 1 exemplars
O Maioral I Livro 2 1 exemplars
Owen Wister, Collection novels (2014) 1 exemplars
Specimen Jones 1 exemplars
Ecologues 1 exemplars
The Jimyjohn Boss 1 exemplars

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The Family Mark Twain (1935) — Col·laborador — 435 exemplars
A Century of Great Western Stories-An Anthology of Western Fiction (2000) — Col·laborador — 104 exemplars
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories (1982) — Col·laborador — 101 exemplars
The Rise of Silas Lapham [Norton Critical Edition] (1885) — Col·laborador — 98 exemplars
The illustrations of Frederic Remington (1952) — commentator — 66 exemplars
Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920) — Prefaci, algunes edicions58 exemplars
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico (1914) — Pròleg, algunes edicions56 exemplars
Great Tales of the American West (1945) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars
Great Tales of the West (1982) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
King Solomon's Mines and Other Adventure Classics (2016) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
The Romance of the Last Crusade (1923) — Prefaci — 20 exemplars
Done in the Open (1900) — Introducció — 20 exemplars
Confederate Battle Stories (Civil War Series) (1992) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Unbridled Spirits: Short Fiction about Women in the Old West (1994) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Great Western short stories (1777) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Representative American Short Stories — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Yellowstone Reader (2003) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Other days (1921) — Prefaci — 1 exemplars

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The Virginian a Westerns (abril 2012)

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Classic western writen in 1902. Fun read.
 
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bentstoker | Hi ha 41 ressenyes més | 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.… (més)
 
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varielle | Hi ha 41 ressenyes més | Nov 18, 2023 |

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Obres
54
També de
27
Membres
2,786
Popularitat
#9,224
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
53
ISBN
368
Llengües
7
Preferit
2

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