Riders of the purple sage /
With 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...
| Основен автор: | Grey, Zane, 1872-1939. |
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| Други автори: | Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Серия: |
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55694 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Riders of the purple sage. |
| Резюме: |
With 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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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xxxviii, 265 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (page xxxvi). |
| ISBN: |
9780191564895 0191564893 0585353700 9780585353708 |