Riders of the Purple Sage
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Riders of the Purple Sage
By (Author) Zane Grey
Introduction by William Handley
Random House USA Inc
Modern Library Inc
15th December 2002
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
Adventure fiction: Westerns
813.52
Physical Properties
Paperback
320
Width 134mm, Height 203mm, Spine 18mm
262g
Description
Book Description First published in 1912, immediately selling over a million copies, Riders of the Purple Sage was the novel that set the pattern for the modern Western. This is the most generously annotated critical edition available. Synopsis The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, in which a gunman recounts his search for a woman kidnapped by the Mormons. First published in 1912.
Reviews
[Zane Grey is] an amazingly significant literary phenomenon.Hamlin Garland
Author Bio
William R. Handley is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West.
