The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories

by Owen Wister

Overview

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This book forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have re-typed, re-formatted, and re-published the book in a very modern format. Hence every reader would get a new book but without losing its old charm and feel. We at Alpha Editions, work towards the restoration of old and rare books so that they are never forgotten and are always available for the future generations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789354044571
Publisher:	Alpha Editions
Publication date:	08/10/2020
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

American writer Owen Wister (1860 - 1938) was the "father" of western fiction best known for writing "The Virginian."

Wister was born in Germantown, northwestern Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wister was schooled in Switzerland and Britain, and studied at Harvard, where he was a member of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. At first he aspired to a career in music and spent two years studying at a Paris conservatory. Thereafter, he worked briefly in a bank in New York before studying law. He was interested in politics, and was a staunch supporter of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt.

He began his literary work after spending several summers in the American West, making his first trip to Wyoming in 1885. Wister was fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of the region. Wister's most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian, the loosely constructed story of a cowboy who is a natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large land owners. This is widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel. The book was written in the library of The Philadelphia Club, where Wister was a member, and is dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt.