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Title: The Virginian by Owen Wister, Charles M. Russell ISBN: 0-517-12278-2 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 09 April, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Unsung classic, unsung hero. A unique character.
Comment: The Virginian is a classic because of the superb characters who fill its pages. The protagonist, known only as the Virginian, embodies a code of manly virtue. He is unique. Without Mary's civilized purity or the Virginian's wild perfection, the book would be a dry, uninteresting Western, full of stereotypical cowboys swaggering around with their pistols on their hips. Instead of a Buffalo Bill, Wister gives us a young man who loves Shakespeare and Dostoevsky and who does unpleasant things because he must, not because he enjoys them. I really enjoyed this book.
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: A Real Classic
Comment: When I was growing up, my Mother told me that she had been given this book by a beau, had read it and enjoyed it. This was in the early 1900s! When I saw it in a used Book Store about a year ago, I picked it up. I am just now reading it. I was totally surprised to find that it is beautifully written, presents a wonderful picture of a vanished time and people and is funny. I find myself smiling at the phrases that have become cliches - "When you call me that smile." and at the fact that I am getting as much pleasure from reading it as my Mother did all those years ago.
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Title: Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey ISBN: 0486424561 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 27 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $3.00 |
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Title: Shane by JACK SCHAEFER ISBN: 0553271105 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Ox-Bow Incident by WALLACE STEGNER, WALTER VAN TILBURG CLARK ISBN: 0375757023 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 13 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie, A.B. Guthrie ISBN: 0618154639 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: To The Last Man : A Story of the Pleasant Valley War by Zane Grey ISBN: 0812564650 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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