Product Information
The Western, though a singularly American art form, is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned. Ever since James Fenimore Cooper transformed frontier yarns into a distinct literary form, the Western has followed two paths: one populist - what Time magazine famously billed 'the American Morality Play' - capable of taking many points of view, from red to redneck, but always populist, with a sentimental attachment to the misfit; the other literary - eschewing heroism, debunking with unsettling candour many of the myths of the West. It can sometimes be difficult to draw a sure line between the two forms, but both are represented in this outstanding collection which includes stories by Rick Bass, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Larry McMurtry, Mari Sandoz, Christopher Tilghman, and Mark Twain, among many others.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139781780339153
eBay Product ID (ePID)152638691
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Mammoth Book of Westerns
AuthorJon E. Lewis
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
GenreAdventure
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width128mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJon E. Lewis
Series TitleMammoth Books
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom