Riders of the Purple Sage (Modern Library Classics)
by Zane Grey
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Author: Zane GreyIntroduction: William Handley
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-12-10
ISBN: 0812966120
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Modern Library
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Book Review: Riders - New Riders
Summary: 5 Stars
There are two basic styles of English prose. One is that of Dashiell Hammett - short words, short sentences, short paragraphs, short chapters, short novels. The other basic style is that of Charles Dickens - long passages of minute, detailed description. Zane Grey wrote in this second style, and he did it very well indeed. The American West comes alive in the pages of this book, a true classic. Calling this "purple prose" is like calling the music of the Grateful Dead "boogie" - it's a putdown that doesn't really mean anything. (Incidentally, a Grateful Dead offshoot band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, was named after this book.) Just as Alice chased a rabbit into Wonderland, so Venters chases a rabbit into Surprise Valley. He discovers true spirituality in the natural world and in other people - not in organized, denominational religion. The theme of this novel is that tyrannical fanaticism - religious and/or political - is dangerous and wrong. Grey was not specifically anti-Mormon. In fact, some of his Mormon charactors were good people. He was against any religious system that was out of control in its lust for power. Think of todays' "religious right", or for that matter, Islamic extremism. Grey would have disliked both.
Summary of Riders of the Purple Sage (Modern Library Classics)
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.?Classics Books
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