{"product_id":"9780192832269-secondhand-the-virginian","title":"The Virginian","description":"The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a strange, seductive and often violent land where the handsome figure of the Virginian battles for supremacy with Trampas and other ne'er-do-wells.  His courtship of the genteel Vermont schoolteacher, Molly Wood, is a humourously observed battle of the sexes, demonstrating that the 'customs of the country' must eventually prevail. Rich in vernacular wit and portraying a romanticized escape from the decorum of the patrician East, The Virginian exudes a sense of redemptive possibility, drawing on Wister's experience of a summer spent on a Wyoming ranch in 1895. This edition includes Wister's neglected essay, 'The Evolution of the Cow-Puncher' (1895), a revealing companion to a novel that has disturbing undercurrents.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49176462393563,"sku":"9780192832269-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e69eb23f-ca5b-450c-9b44-cf4c96e67da5.jpg?v=1787571385","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780192832269-secondhand-the-virginian","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}