| Riders of the Purple Sage Revised Edition Contributor(s): Grey, Zane (Author), Handley, William (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0812966120 ISBN-13: 9780812966121 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2002 Annotation: Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, "combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture," "Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will. Lassiter is on his own quest, one that ends when he discovers a secret grave on Jane's grounds. "[Zane Grey's] popularity was neither accidental nor undeserved," wrote Nye. "Few popular novelists have possessed such a grasp of what the public wanted and few have developed Grey's skill at supplying it." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002026599 |
| Lexile Measure: 1000 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.22" W x 8.14" (0.51 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Topical - Country/Cowboy |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 66997 Reading Level: 7.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 18.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, "combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture," Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will. Lassiter is on his own quest, one that ends when he discovers a secret grave on Jane's grounds. " Zane Grey's] popularity was neither accidental nor undeserved," wrote Nye. "Few popular novelists have possessed such a grasp of what the public wanted and few have developed Grey's skill at supplying it." |