Riders of the purple sage /
Ẁith searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.'The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912, immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border countr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Colección: | Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Ẁith searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.'The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912, immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border country of South Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero, Lassiter, a gunman in black leather, who routs the persecutors and then gradually recounts his own history of an endless. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxviii, 265 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (page xxxvi). |
ISBN: | 9780191564895 0191564893 0585353700 9780585353708 0191605352 9780191605352 |