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The Mammoth Book of Westerns

Jon E. Lewis

The Western though a singularly American art form is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned.

Ever since James Fenimore Cooper transformed frontier yarns into a distinct literary form the Western has followed two paths: one populist - what Time magazine famously billed 'the American Morality Play' - capable of taking many points of view from red to redneck but always populist with a sentimental attachment to the misfit; the other literary - eschewing heroism debunking with unsettling candour many of the myths of the West.

It can sometimes be difficult to draw a sure line between the two forms but both are represented in this outstanding collection which includes stories by Rick Bass Walter Van Tilburg Clark Larry McMurtry Mari Sandoz Christopher Tilghman and Mark Twain among many others.

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JUL 4, 2013
  • Imprint : Robinson
  • Page Extent : 560
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781780339153
  • Price : INR 1,050
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Jon E. Lewis

JON E. LEWIS is a writer and historian. His many previous books include bestsellers The Mammoth Book of the West The Mammoth Book of Polar Journeys The Mammoth Book of True War Stories and World War II: The Autobiography.

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