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Signet
April 2002
On Sale: April 1, 2002
400 pages
ISBN: 0451528328
EAN: 9780451528322
Paperback (reprint)
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Fiction
Owen Wister's powerful story of the silent stranger who
rides into the uncivilized West and defeats the forces of
evil embodies one of the most enduring themes in American
mythology. Set in the vast Wyoming territory, The Virginian (1902)
captures both the grandeur and the loneliness of the
frontier experience, brilliantly evoking the tension between
the romantic freedom of the great, untamed landscape and
mankind's deep-seated desire for community and social order.
Wister brings to life the honesty and rough justice that
ruled the range and the civilizing influence of determined
women in frontier settlements that imposed a sense of
society on an unruly population. For Wister, the West tested a man's true worth. His
hero-influenced by those of Sir Walter Scott and James
Fenimore Cooper-is a man who lives by the classic code of
chivalry, ruled by quiet courage and a deeply felt sense of
honor.
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