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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.
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ISBN/EAN | 9780199554102 |
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Author | Owen Wister |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 26 Mar 2009 |
Format | Paperback |