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Riders of the Purple Sage
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Author:
Grey, Zane
Author of introduction, etc.:
Handley, William
Series:
Modern Library Classics
Published:
Random House Publishing Group 2007
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
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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.”
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Street Date:
12/18/2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780307431707
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APA Citation (style guide)

Zane Grey. (2007). Riders of the Purple Sage. Random House Publishing Group.

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Zane Grey. 2007. Riders of the Purple Sage. Random House Publishing Group.

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Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage. Random House Publishing Group, 2007.

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Zane Grey. Riders of the Purple Sage. Random House Publishing Group, 2007.

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