Riders of the Purple Sage -- Zane Grey

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," <i>Riders of the Purple Sage</i> 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."<br><br><b>Author:</b> Zane Grey<br><b>Publisher:</b> Modern Library<br><b>Published:</b> 12/10/2002<br><b>Pages:</b> 320<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.51lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.14h x 5.22w x 0.66d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780812966121<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 7.2<br><b>Point Value:</b> 18<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>66997 / Riders of the Purple Sage<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>William R. Handley</b> is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of <i>Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West</i>.</p>