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Magistrales historias acaecidas entre indios y blancos. Una visión insólitamente auténtica que el cine del Oeste ha ocultado.Todos los géneros inapropiadamente considerados menores han contado con una gran figura que les ha dado cartas de nobleza. En el western, Owen Wister es la gran figura que ha proporcionado la requerida altura literaria al género. Las historias que componen este libro fueron escuchadas o vividas por el autor; por ello transmiten la verdadera imagen de un oeste americano mal reacreado en el cine por gentes que no vivieron la época: la dignidad de los indios frente al expolio de los blancos, el pintoresco parlamentarismo originario, la incorporación de los nuevos territorios y también alguna trágica historia de amor fronteriza.

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The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a strange, seductive and often violent land where the handsome figure of the Virginian battles for supremacy with Trampas and other ne'er-do-wells. His courtship of the genteel Vermont schoolteacher, Molly Wood, is a humourously observed battle of the sexes, demonstrating that the 'customs of the country' must eventually prevail. Rich in vernacular wit and portraying a romanticized escape from the decorum of the patrician East, The Virginian exudes a sense of redemptive possibility, drawing on Wister's experience of a summer spent on a Wyoming ranch in 1895. This edition includes Wister's neglected essay, `The Evolution of the Cow-Puncher' (1895), a revealing companion to a novel that has disturbing undercurrents. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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The novel that created the icon of the lonely, chivalrous american cowboy, the virginian is owen wister's well-written western adventure tale of the quiet,tough virginian cowboy, his tenderfoot friend, his schoolmarm bride, and their lives in the already dying frontier. UK YES

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