eBooks - Literature - Classics - Owen Wister - The Virginian
The Virginian eBooks
by Owen Wister
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The Virginian Summary
| Certain of the newspapers, when this book was first announced, made a mistake most natural upon seeing the sub-title as it then stood, A TALE OF SUNDRY ADVENTURES. “This sounds like a historical novel,” said one of them, meaning (I take it) a colonial romance. As it now stands, the title will scarce lead to such interpretation; yet none the less is this book historical—quite as much so as any colonial romance. Indeed, when you look at the root of the matter, it is a colonial romance. For Wyoming between 1874 and 1890 was a colony as wild as was Virginia one hundred years earlier. As wild, with a scantier population, and the same primitive joys and dangers. There were, to be sure, not so many Chippendale settees. |
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This classic western was the basis for the popular TV series of the 1960s. The author of The Virginian called him the "last romantic hero." In this tale of the old west, the Virginian works as foreman of a cattle ranch, falls in love with a school teacher from New England, and says to his best friend, Trampas, "Smile when you say that, partner." |
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