Riders of the Purple Sage

Zane Grey, Jane Tompkins

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English

Penguin Books Ltd
01 May 1990

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Westerns

"A master of narrative momentum and suspense, Zane Grey sweeps readers into his stories and makes them feel that things are out of control, that boundaries are being burst.

InRiders of the Purple Sage, the most famous novel of the American West, Grey creates a hero of epic proportions, a villain of legendary evil and a world in which the landscape is rendered with such force that it seems to express thoughts and feelings, to become a character in its own right. Indeed,Riders of the Purple Sagederives much of its depth and power from passions whose forbidden and overwhelming nature cannot be expressed by human beings and are therefore embodied in the natural world. In his depiction of the relationship between Lassiter, the hero, and Jane Withersteen, Grey breaks other literary barriers- Jane, modelled on the heroines of the nineteenth-century novel, must come to terms with the values expressed by Lassiter - the harsh, ""masculine"" values of the twentieth century. Their struggles together represent the tumultuous changes society itself was confronting."

By: Zane Grey
Introduction by: Jane Tompkins
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 244g
ISBN: 9780140184402
ISBN 10: 0140184406
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 May 1990
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Riders of the Purple Sage

When, in 1904, Zane Grey abandoned dentistry in favour of novel writing, the people of Zanesville, Ohio, lost an average orthodontist but the world gained a first-rate story-teller. This is his best-known and most successful work, and the benchmark for all self-respecting writers of westerns. Published in 1912 Riders of the Purple Sage sold over a million copies with its melodramtic tale of leather-clad hero Lassiter intervening to save Jane Withersteen from being married against her will, breaking the paralysing hold that the Mormans have over her. (Kirkus UK)