Zane Grey (1872–1939)
Auteur de Riders of the Purple Sage
A propos de l'auteur
Zane Grey was born Pearl Zane Gray in 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. He studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, married Lina Elise Roth in 1905, then moved his family west where he began to write novels. The author of 86 books, he is today considered the father of the Western genre, with afficher plus its heady romances and mysterious outlaws. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) brought Grey his greatest popular acclaim. Other notable titles include The Light of Western Stars (1914) and The Vanishing American (1925). An extremely prolific writer, he often completed three novels a year, while his publisher would issue only one at a time. Twenty-five of his novels were published posthumously. His last, The Reef Girl, was published in 1977. Zane Grey died of heart failure on October 23 in Altadena, California, in 1939. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) born Pearl Zane Gray. Family changed spelling to Grey and he dropped his first name.
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Séries
Œuvres de Zane Grey
Buffalo Bill: Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of Colonel William F. Cody (1899) 173 exemplaires
Five Complete Novels: Riders of the Purple Sage, To the Last Man, The Thundering Herd, The Hash Knife Outfit, and West… (1980) 36 exemplaires
Three Complete Novels: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Rainbow Trail, & The Lone Star Ranger (1994) 25 exemplaires
The Best of Zane Grey: Riders of the Purple Sage / The Trail Driver / Rangers of the Lone Star (2009) 16 exemplaires
Four Complete Novels: The Lone Star Ranger, The Rainbow Trail, Under the Tonto Rim, and Wyoming (1982) 11 exemplaires
Zane Grey: The Ultimate Collection - 49 Works - Classic Westerns and Much More (2014) 10 exemplaires
The Last of the Plainsmen and Last of the Great Scouts: Two Complete Novels (2015) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Obras completas : novelas 8 8 exemplaires
CLASSIC TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF ADVENTURE. Riders of the Purple Sage; King Solomon's Mines; Greenmantle; The… (2008) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Western Heroes: "Riders of the Purple Sage", "Last of the Plainsmen", "Lone Star Ranger" (1992) 5 exemplaires
Three Complete Western Novels - Riders of the Purple Sage, The Last Trail, Yaqui (1996) 5 exemplaires
Zane Grey: 5 orange color hardbacks no dust covers West of the Pecos,The Lost Wagon Train,The Trail Driver,Raiders of… (1936) 5 exemplaires
Classic Westerns - 27 Zane Grey Novels 4 exemplaires
Country Gentleman 3 exemplaires
The Zane Grey Collection (The Fighting Caravans / The Fighting Westerner / Hell Town / To the Last Man / Drift Fence) 3 exemplaires
Tex Thorne Comes Out of the West. Based on the Famous Adventure Strip. The Big Little Book (1937) 3 exemplaires
50 Eternal Masterpieces of Western Stories (Golden Deer Classics): The Last Of The Mohicans, The Log Of A Cowboy,… (2017) 3 exemplaires
The Fort Henry Saga : Complete in One Volume : Betty Zane/The Spirit of the Border/The Last Trail (2000) 3 exemplaires
Zane Grey Boxed Set. Arizona Ames, Desert Gold, Twin Sombreros and Under the Tonto Rim 3 exemplaires
Geen broedermoord in Lost Lake 2 exemplaires
To The Last Man 2 exemplaires
Zane Grey Collection: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Call of the Canyon, The Man of the Forest, The Desert of Wheat and… (2016) 2 exemplaires
The Ohio River Trilogy The Purple Sage Saga The Lone Star Ranger The Border Legion (7 Western Classics in One Volume):… (2015) 2 exemplaires
Tappan's Burro: and Other Stories 2 exemplaires
Zane Grey Combo #3: The Rustlers of Pecos County/The Last of the Plainsmen/To the Last Man (Zane Grey Omnibus) (Volume… (2013) 2 exemplaires
The Call of the Canyon (Zane Grey) 1934 2 exemplaires
Western Classics Collection Volume I: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Light of Western Stars, The Rainbow Trail 2 exemplaires
Sence na poti 2 exemplaires
Grey's The Dude Ranger 2 exemplaires
THE CALL OF THE WILD WEST - Ultimate Western Collection: 175 Novels & Short Stories in One Volume: Famous Outlaw Tales,… (2017) 2 exemplaires
Classic Westerns: 18 Novels by Zane Grey 2 exemplaires
King of the Royal Mounted and the Great Jewel Mystery 2 exemplaires
The Lost Wagon Train and The Trail Driver 2 exemplaires
Zane Grey's Western Magazine August 1947 2 exemplaires
Nevada - Bantam # 1067 1 exemplaire
The Classic Western Collection 1 exemplaire
La lunga pista 1 exemplaire
The Spirit of the Border, Retold for Young Readers 1 exemplaire
Zane Grey Ohio River Trilogy: Betty Zane, The Spirit of the Border, The Last Trail) (2012) 1 exemplaire
Vogntoget som forsvant 1 exemplaire
Betty Zane 1st Edition Book 1 exemplaire
Karr 1 exemplaire
The Collected Complete Works of Zane Grey (Huge Collection Including The Call of the Canyon, Riders of the Purple Sage,… (2017) 1 exemplaire
Zane Grey's Westerns (Volume 1), including The Last of the Plainsmen, The Heritage of the Desert, The Young Forester,… (2015) 1 exemplaire
The Red-Headed Outfield 1 exemplaire
The Rainbow Trail, The Original Western Novel (Annotated): (Masterpiece Collection) (2016) 1 exemplaire
Tales of Angler's Eldorado New Zealand 1 exemplaire
Tales of Swordfish & Tuna 1 exemplaire
La heroína de Fort Henry 1 exemplaire
Obras Completas: Novelas, VI 1 exemplaire
Obras completas : novelas 5 1 exemplaire
O Vale Dos Cavalos Selvagens 1 exemplaire
Fogo Selvagem Livro 1 1 exemplaire
The Young Pitcher by Zane Grey (Illustrated Edition) 1 exemplaire
The Redheaded Outfield and Other Stories 1 exemplaire
Kraljica pašnikov 1 exemplaire
Set of 25 Hardcover Zane Grey Books From 1960 1 exemplaire
Zane Grey Western Award Stories 1 exemplaire
Flucht vor Sonnenaufgang - Western 1 exemplaire
Il ranger del Texas (Italian Edition) 1 exemplaire
The One That Got Away - w/ Dust Jacket 1 exemplaire
Zane Grey's Western Magazine - September 1947 1 exemplaire
The Collected Works of Zane Gray 1 exemplaire
Zane Gray Classic Western Collection 23 Works 1 exemplaire
Country Gentleman March 1930 1 exemplaire
L'ORO DEL DESERTO 1 exemplaire
Auringonlaskun sola 1 exemplaire
Do posljednjeg čovjeka 1 exemplaire
Pljačkaško gnijezdo 1 exemplaire
Der Texas Reiter 1 exemplaire
Zane Grey Library: Volume 5 1 exemplaire
Wild Horse Mesa. [Novel of Desert Life in Utah]. 1 exemplaire
Thirty Thousand on the Hoof 1 exemplaire
Das Greenhorn. 1 exemplaire
Karavane se bojujejo 1 exemplaire
Pobegla reka 1 exemplaire
Jezdeci škrlatne kadulje 1 exemplaire
62 ZANE GREY Hardcover Collection ☆ UNABRIDGED 1 exemplaire
The Code of the West 1 exemplaire
The Outlaws of the Wild West: 150+ Westerns in One Edition: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous… 1 exemplaire
Lovec divokých včel (1926) 1 exemplaire
The Wild Horse Mesa 1 exemplaire
Zane Grey A Biography 1 exemplaire
Zane Grey's Greatest Western Storie 1 exemplaire
Ørkenguld 1 exemplaire
The lost wagon train zane 1 exemplaire
Río perdido 1 exemplaire
El cazador de ciervos 1 exemplaire
Silvermane and Other Short Stories 1 exemplaire
12 Volume Set: Twin Sombreros; Riders of the Purple Sage; West of the Pecos; Knights of the Range; the Border Legion;… (1961) 1 exemplaire
The Heritage of the Desert Plus 26 Other Zane Grey Classic Westerns (English Edition) (2009) 1 exemplaire
The Definitive Zane Grey Collection: 26 Westerns in One Volume (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 1 exemplaire
Zane Grey, the Man and His Work: An Autobiographical Sketch, Critical Appreciations and Bibliography (2011) 1 exemplaire
Classic Western Sampler #3: 12 books by 12 different authors, in a single file, improved 8/14/2010 (2009) 1 exemplaire
Best of the West Expanded Edition, Vol. 1: Classic Stories from the American Frontier (2009) 1 exemplaire
Set of 7 Zane Grey Novels: The Deer Stalker, Knights of the Range, Wild Horse Mesa, Riders of the Purple Sage, Shadow… (1952) 1 exemplaire
Duch pogranicza 1 exemplaire
Sporet som forsvant 1 exemplaire
The Collected Baseball Stories of Zane Grey (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 1 exemplaire
Doupě uchvatitelů 1 exemplaire
Zane Grey's ambush (Western Union) 1 exemplaire
Riders of the Spanish Peaks 1 exemplaire
Texasin tyttö 1 exemplaire
Obras Completas VI. Arizona; Al Oeste del Pecos; La Caravana Perdida; Guarida de Ladrones; La Montaña del Trueno; Los… (1959) 1 exemplaire
Collected Westerns of Zane Grey (19) 1 exemplaire
Tvirtovės apsuptis: romanas 1 exemplaire
Heyne Western Classic Sammelband 2683. Bis zum letzten Mann - Der Marshal von River Bend - Shannigan. (1983) 1 exemplaire
ZANE GREY: 1950/60 20 Volume set -Thundering Herd/Majesty's Rancho/Wildfire/Fighting Caravans/Arizona Ames/Wild… 1 exemplaire
Caçadores de Cavalos - vol. 25 1 exemplaire
Prospector's Gold 1 exemplaire
Texas Joe. Zane Grey-bøkene. 2. 1 exemplaire
Zane Grey: The Collected Works 1 exemplaire
Riders of the Purple Sage 1 exemplaire
Ranger 1 exemplaire
The Last Man Standing 1 exemplaire
El rancho Majestad 1 exemplaire
50 Classic Western Stories You Should Read (Zongo Classics): The Last Of The Mohicans, The Log Of A Cowboy, Riders of… (2017) 1 exemplaire
Ocelový oř. Seš. 1 1 exemplaire
Grenselandets sv 1 exemplaire
Obras completas II - 1 exemplaire
3 Books: The Heritage of the Desert, The Young Forester, Blue Feather and Other Stories (1910) 1 exemplaire
El espíritu de la frontera Novela 1 exemplaire
Zane Grey's Western Magazine - Vol 2, No 5 1 exemplaire
Tales of the Gladiator 1 exemplaire
Kämpfende Karawanen 1 exemplaire
Obras completas. Novelas VII 1 exemplaire
Obras completas. Novelas VIII 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
A Century of Great Western Stories-An Anthology of Western Fiction (2000) — Contributeur — 104 exemplaires
60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures: Riders of the Purple… 33 exemplaires
Best of the West: Classic Stories from the American Frontier, Volume 2 [Audiobook] (2003) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Grey, Zane
- Nom légal
- Gray, Pearl Zane
- Autres noms
- GREY, Pearl Zane
GREY, Zane - Date de naissance
- 1872-01-31
- Date de décès
- 1939-10-23
- Lieu de sépulture
- Union Cemetery, Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Zanesville, Ohio, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Altadena, California, USA
- Cause du décès
- heart failure
- Lieux de résidence
- Avalon, Catalina Island, California, USA
Altadena, California, USA
Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, USA - Études
- University of Pennsylvania (DDS|1896)
- Professions
- usher
dentist
baseball player
author - Relations
- Grey, Romer C. (brother)
Grey, Romer Zane (son)
Grey, Loren (son) - Organisations
- Sigma Nu
Orange Athletic Club
Outdoor Life Magazine
Tuna Club of Avalon - Prix et distinctions
- Hall of Great Westerners (1977)
- Notice de désambigüisation
- born Pearl Zane Gray. Family changed spelling to Grey and he dropped his first name.
Membres
Discussions
Zane Grey November - Group Reads à 2013 Category Challenge (Décembre 2013)
western about a woman who runs a ranch à Name that Book (Mars 2013)
Critiques
Listes
Art of Reading (1)
Best Westerns (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 417
- Aussi par
- 18
- Membres
- 18,148
- Popularité
- #1,214
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 252
- ISBN
- 4,049
- Langues
- 22
- Favoris
- 19
(Print: 1915 | 8/10/2020; 978-9354044311; Alpha editions; 298 pages )
(Digital: Yes.)
Audio: 1/21/2010; 9781449877262; Recorded Books; Duration 10:25:55 (10 parts); Unabridged.
(Film: multiple times).
CHARACTERS: (Not comprehensive)
Buck (Buckley or Dodge) Duane – (more commonly referred to by his name, Duane, in the narration) A fellow, fast with a gun, excommunicated from his home when he shot someone in self-defense, forcing him to go “on the dodge” which is a Nomad status that generally put one in company with Outlaws.
Luke Stevens – The first fellow Buck befriends after going “on the dodge”.
Bland – an outlaw
Kate Bland – Bland’s wife
Jenny – A captive of the Blands held in servitude under the constant threat/fear of sexual abuse.
Euchre - An outlaw Buck befriends
MacNelly – A Texas Ranger who wants to recruit Buck
Bullet – Buck’s large black horse
DEDICATION:
This book was dedicated to Texas Ranger Captain John R. Hughes who it is believed inspired the protagonist. Hughes is also believed to be the inspiration for the radio and tv series, “The Lone Ranger”. There are many similarities, but the reason in the series for the name “Lone” was apparently because the character lost all of his fellow Rangers including his Ranger brother, leaving him the only Ranger left. Whereas, with this book it is because Texas is “The Lone Star State”.
SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
I never got attached to any Western themed movies or books, but several years ago I woke with the name Zane Grey in my consciousness. I didn’t realize, until several days later when I saw a biography about him in a used book sale, that this was actually a person. Seeing that he’d been the author of Western books, I didn’t purchase the biography at the time, but was still curious why I had the name on my mind when I woke up. I didn’t think of it again until one of the recent Connelly books I listened to mentioned a hotel on Catalina Island named Zane Grey. That re-ignited my curiosity enough to decide to listen to at least one of his books, so this was one of the few that was available on LAPL’s Overload.
It made me realize that what I don’t like about Westerns is that they romanticize and promote violence. Gunplay is always involved and the stereotypes of the characters were never appealing. The horses were the only attraction.
This was originally written in 1915 and things were much different then, but I still can’t help but find the many racial slurs distasteful.
BUT, if you LIKE Westerns, no doubt you’ll like this one.
I did enjoy it for its historical value.
Something I found mildly annoying was that a more current decade was mentioned. I believe it was 1970’s—there seemed to be no need to update the time period and it was incongruous. It also made me wonder what other edits had occurred.
AUTHOR:
Zane Grey (1/31/1872 – 10/23/1929). From Amazon-dot-com: “Zane Grey, the greatest and most prolific storyteller of the American West, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on January 31, 1872. In his youth, Zane was a semi-professional Zane Greybaseball player and a half-hearted dentist, having studied dentistry to appease his father while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. He wanted above all to write and taught himself to do so with stern discipline to free his innate and immense storytelling capacity. Many a lean year came and went as he searched for a publisher, but Zane soon became the best-selling Western author of all time as well as the best selling author of non-fiction fishing novels. For most of the teens, 20s, and 30s, Zane had at least one novel in the top ten every year. His marriage in 1905 to Lina Roth, whom he called Dolly, was a triumph of the old-fashioned, “complimentary” model of matrimony, wherein the husband ranges freely to sustain the inspiration for his calling and the wife tends to the family, edits the manuscripts and makes deals with the publishers. It is fair to say that Dolly’s belief in Zane’s literaZane Greyry works was the single factor most responsible for the success of his lengthy career. Zane and Dolly had three children, Romer, Betty and Loren. Zane’s breakthrough success of Heritage of the Desert in 1910 enabled him to establish a home in Altadena, California and a hunting lodge on the Mogollon Rim near Payson, Arizona. A lifelong passion for angling and the rich rewards of his writing also allowed him to roam the world’s premier game-fishing grounds in his own schooners where he set thirteen deep-sea angling records, most of which stood for decades. Zane would develop and invent tackle still being used today and his exploits in fishing would gain him recognition as the “Father of Modern Big Game Fishing”.
NARRATOR(S):
Ed Sala. From Tantor-dot-com, “Ed Sala, an actor and a writer, has appeared at Carnegie Hall and both on and off Broadway. His plays have been performed in regional theaters across the country. He has won numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards for his audiobook narrations, including one for Finn by Jon Clinch, and Best Books for Young Adults Awards from the American Library Association. His performance of White Doves at Morning by James Lee Burke was selected by AudioFile as one of the fifteen best audiobooks of the year.”
GENRE:
Western
LOCATIONS:
Texas
TIME FRAME:
Early 1900’s
SUBJECTS:
Texas, Outlaws, Rangers, Cattle Rustling, outlaw gangs, posse
SAMPLE QUOTATION:
From Chapter 1:
“So it was in him, then—an inherited fighting instinct, a driving intensity to kill. He was the last of the Duanes, that old fighting stock of Texas. But not the memory of his dead father, nor the pleading of his soft-voiced mother, nor the warning of this uncle who stood before him now, had brought Buck Duane so much realization of the dark passionate strain in his blood. It was the recurrence, a hundred-fold increased in power, of a strange emotion that for the last three years had arisen in him.
‘Yes, Cal Bain’s in town, full of bad whiskey an’ huntin’ for you,’ repeated the elder man, gravely.
‘It’s the second time,’ muttered Duane, as if to himself.
‘Son, you can’t avoid a meetin’. Leave town till Cal sobers up. He ain’t got it in for you when he’s not drinkin’’
‘But what’s he want me for?’ demanded Duane. ‘To insult me again? I won’t stand that twice.’
‘He’s got a fever that’s rampant in Texas these days, my boy. He wants gun-play. If he meets you he’ll try to kill you.’
Here it stirred in Duane again, that bursting gush of blood, like a wind of flame shaking all his inner being and subsiding to leave him strangely chilled.
‘Kill me! What for?’ he asked.
‘Lord knows there ain’t any reason. But what’s that to do with most of the shootin’ these days? Didn’t five cowboys over to Everall’s kill one another dead all because they got to jerkin’ at a quirt among themselves? An’ Cal has no reason to love you. His girl was sweet on you.’
‘I quit when I found out she was his girl.’
‘I reckon she ain’t quit. But never mind her or reasons. Cal’s here, just drunk enough to be ugly. He’s achin’ to kill somebody. He’s one of them four-flush gun-fighters. He’d like to be thought bad. There’s a lot of wild cowboys who’re ambitious for a reputation. They talk about how quick they are on the draw. They ape Bland an’ King Fisher an’ Hardin an’ all the big outlaws. They make threats about joinin’ gangs along the Rio Grande. They laugh at the sheriffs an’ brag about how they’d fix the rangers. Cal’s sure not much for you to bother with, if you only keep out of his way.’”
RATING: 2.5 stars. (It finally occurred to me that while I am limited to a non-fractional number of stars by Goodreads, I don’t have to be in my reviews. )
I think this was a great story for its genre and its day, just not for me.
STARTED-FINISHED 5/10/21-5/21/21
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