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The virginian

His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian-- the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness.

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  • "Jezdec z plání"
  • "Owen Wister's the virginian"@en
  • "Virginian"
  • "Virginian"@it
  • "Son of Virginia"

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  • "His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian-- the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness."@en
  • "The American frontier literature of cowboys, Indians, scouts and trappers stretches back to the dime novels of the late nineteenth century, but it was not until the publication of <em>The Virginian</em> in 1902 that the Western genre came of age."@en
  • "The foreman of a large cattle ranch on the Wyoming frontier lives by the honor code of the West even though it means helping lynch a friend or possibly losing the girl he is to marry."@en
  • "The foreman of a large cattle ranch on the Wyoming frontier lives by the honor code of the West even though it means helping lynch a friend or possibly losing the girl he is to marry."
  • "Poli's Theatre, Washington, D.C., Sylvester Poli, proprietor. S.Z. Poli offers the Poli Players in a dramtization of Owen Wister's thrilling western story "The Virginian." Musical program, Henry F. Smith, musical director."
  • "Poli's Theatre, Washington, D.C., Sylvester Poli, proprietor. The popular Poli Players in "The Virginian," a dramatization of Owen Wister's thrilling western story, produced under the stage direction of Robert Wayne. Musical program, Henry F. Smith, director."
  • "This classic tells the story of the Wyoming ranch foreman known only as the Virgianian, his courtship of school teacher Molly Starkwood, and his encounters with the murdering cattle rustler, Trampas."@en
  • "The Virginian, by Owen Wister, is part of the <A href=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/classics/index.asp?z=y&cds2Pid=16447&sLinkPrefix>Barnes & Noble Classics</A> series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:<UL type=disc><LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Biographies of the authors <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Footnotes and endnotes <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Comments by other famous authors <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Bibliographies for further reading <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. <P style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt class=MsoNormal>The western is one of America's most important and influential contributions to world culture. And it was Owen Wister's The Virginian, first published in 1902, that created the familiar archetypes of character, setting, and action that still dominate western fiction and film. <P style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt class=MsoNormal> <P style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt class=MsoNormal>The Virginian's characters include: The hero, tall, taciturn, and unflappable, confident in his skills, careful of his honor, mysterious in his background; the heroine, the “schoolmarm from the East, dedicated to civilizing the untamed town, but willing to adapt to its ways—up to a point; and the villain, who is a liar, a thief, a killer, and worst of all, a coward beneath his bluster. Its setting—the lonely small town in the midst of the vast, empty, dangerous but overwhelmingly beautiful landscape—plays so crucial a role that it may be regarded as one of the primary characters. And its action—the cattle roundup, the capture of the rustlers, the agonizing moral choices demanded by “western justice, and the climactic shoot-out between hero and villain—shaped the plots of the thousands of books and movies that followed.<P style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt class=MsoNormal> John G. Cawelti has published ten books, including Apostles of the Self-Made Man, Adventure, Mystery and Romance, The Spy Story, Leon Forrest: Introductions and Interpretations, and The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel. He has also published about seventy essays in the fields of American literature, cultural history, and popular culture, and has made oral presentations at more than one hundred universities and scholarly conferences."
  • "Loosely based on the Johnson County War of 1892, a bloody clash between big landowners and small ranchers in Wyoming, Owen Wister's The Virginian is the classic saga of a man who embodied the spirit of a growing nation--a novel that inspired five movie versions and the popular TV series. "When you call me that, SMILE!" He wasn't looking for fame or glory. He wasn't looking for war. The man they called the Virginian was earning his way off the land, mingling his sweat and blood on the rich Montana soil as a trusted foreman for a rich man's ranch. Somewhere along the line he made an enemy, made a choice and then made a stand. . .In the eyes of a woman, he was a man of contradictions, as violent as he could be tender. In the eyes of others, he became a hero, a man who had the courage to draw his gun and use it against his enemies--and the courage to stand for justice without it. "Owen Wister has come pretty near to writing the American novel.'It contains humor, pathos, poetic description, introspective thought, sentiment, and even tragedy." --New York Times."@en
  • "Set in Wyoming in pioneer days. The hero, never named, provokes the enmity of a local bad man named Trampas. In a poker game, Trampas accuses the Virginian of cheating and impugns his ancestry. Instantly the Virginian's pistol is drawn and put on the table before him, and he utters the catch phrase "When you call me that, smile." Trampas backs down. Later the Virginian rescues a New England schoolmistress from a stage coach that has been marooned in high water by a drunken driver. Eventually they get married. The novel's climax is a pistol duel between Trampas and the Virginian in which Trampas is vanquished, the scene constituting the first known walkdown in American literature. The author had first gone to Wyoming for health reasons on the advice of Theodore Roosevelt. Wister dedicated the novel to Roosevelt and many of the Virginian's traits and ideals resemble Roosevelt's. According to Wister, writing in the 16th edition of the book, the hero is a combination of several men he had known in Wyoming. It became the prototype for all cowboy heroes."@en
  • "Story of an intrepid but light-hearted cowpuncher from Virginia."
  • "He is the Virginian-the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks the birth of a legend that lives with us still."@en
  • "His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian -- the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks his first appearance in popular culture -- the birth of a legend that lives with us still."@en
  • "The novel begins with an unnamed narrator's arrival in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, from back East and his encounter with an impressively tall and handsome stranger who proves adept at roping horses, teasing a friend who is off to be married, and facing down a fellow gambler, Trampas, with a pistol and a gently threatening, "When you call me that, smile!" This stranger, known only as the Virginian, turns out to be the narrator's guide to Judge Henry's ranch in Sunk Creek, Wyoming. As the two travel the 263 miles to the ranch, the narrator, later nicknamed the "tenderfoot" and the Virginian begin to come to know one another as the Tenderfoot slowly begins to understand the nature of life in the West, which is very different from what he expected. This meeting is the beginning of what becomes a deep lifelong friendship and the starting point of the narrator's recounting of key episodes in the life of the Virginian."@en
  • "The Virginian is a pioneering novel set in the Wild West describing the life of the foreman of the Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming. It was the first true western written, aside from the tiny dime novels."
  • "The classic story about a taciturn cowboy hero and his experiences on a ranch in Medicine Bow, Wyoming."@en
  • "The foreman of a large cattle ranch on the Wyoming frontier lives by the honor code of the West."@en
  • "His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian."
  • "His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian."@en

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  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Adventure novels"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Textbooks"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Dobrodružné romány"
  • "American fiction"@ar
  • "American fiction"
  • "Příručky"
  • "Theater programs"
  • "Western stories"
  • "Western stories"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Playbills"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Music"@en

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  • "The writings of Owen Wister The Virginian"
  • "Virginialainen; tasankojen ratsumies"
  • "Virginiano"
  • "弗吉尼亚人 : 平原骑手"
  • "The virginian : [for students of English as a foreign language]"
  • "The virginian"@en
  • "The virginian"
  • "Der Virginier"
  • "Il virginiano : romanzo"
  • "Il virginiano : romanzo"@it
  • "The Virginian : a horseman of the plains / M"@en
  • "El virginiano"@es
  • "Virginialainen : tasankojen ratsastaja"@fi
  • "Manden fra Virginia"@da
  • "Manden fra Virginia"
  • "The Virginian : [for students of English as a foreign language]"
  • "Ibn Firjīnyā"
  • "Der Virginier Roman"
  • "Prerijski jahač"
  • "Cowboys-blod : En historia från prärien"@sv
  • "<&gt"@ar
  • "The virginian : a horseman of the Plains"
  • "Le cavalier de Virginie"
  • "The Virginian : a horseman of the plains"
  • "The Virginian : a horseman of the plains"@en
  • "De Virginier"
  • "Der Virginier : Roman"
  • "Le Cavalier de Virginie : ["The Virginian". Édition abrégée. Traduction de Suzanne et Marcel Kenec'hdu.]"
  • "Fujiniya ren : ping yuan qi shou"
  • "The Virginian : a Ladder edition at the 3,000-word level; [for students of English as a foreign language]"
  • "The Virginian. [With illustrations.]"@en
  • "Virginian : a horseman of the plains"@en
  • "The Virginian"
  • "The Virginian"@en
  • "ابن ڤرچينا"
  • "Cowboys-blod : en historia från prärien"
  • "The virginian : a horseman of the plains"
  • "Virginian"
  • "Virginian"@en
  • "Virgiňan : jezdec z plání"
  • "Fu ji ni ya ren"
  • "弗吉尼亚人"
  • "ابن فرجينيا"
  • "The Virginian : [screenplay]"@en
  • "Virginialainen, tasankojen ratsumies"@fi

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