Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel - Softcover

Grey, Zane; Duer, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080327047X ISBN 13: 9780803270473

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1994

Synopsis

Riders of the Purple Sage, perhaps more than any other novel, contributed to the concept of the American West. The mysterious gunfighter, the outlaw boss and his masked accomplice, the frontier woman torn between love and law, the laconic cowboy out on the range—all these figures became familiar to readers through the work of Zane Grey. If Owen Wister invented the Western story in The Virginian (Bison Books 1992), Grey moved it farther west in the popular imagination and supplied authentic atmosphere. Riders of the Purple Sage is "pure Americana," to quote one critic. It has the classic elements of the genre: revenge, fast horses, abduction, pistol duels, cattle stampedes, daring pursuits and escapes, dark secrets, hidden gold, pastoral refuge, splendid sunsets—and Grey's emphasis on the passion of man and woman. What The Nation said about the novel in 1912 still stands: it contains all that storytellers about the West "have ever dreamed of or invented to stir the heart and freeze the blood."

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From the Publisher:

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From the Inside Flap:

Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, "combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture," "Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will. Lassiter is on his own quest, one that ends when he discovers a secret grave on Jane's grounds. "[Zane Grey's] popularity was neither accidental nor undeserved," wrote Nye. "Few popular novelists have possessed such a grasp of what the public wanted and few have developed Grey's skill at supplying it."

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 080327047X
• ISBN 13: 9780803270473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 335
• Illustrator: Duer Douglas