
ISBN-10: 0312869851
ISBN-13: 9780312869854
ISBN-10: 031286986X
ISBN-13: 9780312869861
John Jakes, no 1 long island occasions bestselling writer of such acclaimed historic novels as North and South and The Kent relatives Chronicles has lengthy been either a fan and a individual writer of novels and tales of the yank West. Now, with the turning of the millennium, he has compiled in a single quantity a century's worthy of his favourite Western fiction.
To illustrate the evolution of the style, Jakes has incorporated such mythical authors as Owen Wister, Louis L'Amour, and Zane gray at the side of their extra modern friends corresponding to Loren Estleman and Elmer Kelton. whereas the tales have replaced through the years, yes undying topics of Western fiction stay consistent. on the center of the tales are principles that experience turn into synonymous with the yankee dream---the frontier spirit, person freedoms, and man's courting with the land.
A Century of serious Western Stories is largely a retrospective of western writing during the last century, yet Jakes additionally units out to provide readers a glimpse of what the long run may carry for western fiction. whereas developments in publishing would possibly not constantly be promising, the present crop of latest Western authors convey that the outdated west will regularly have a spot on the planet of fiction. just like the American dream which it celebrates, Western fiction will perservere.
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A Century of Great Western Stories
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