The Virginian

by Owen Wister · 1902

A soft-spoken Wyoming cowboy courts an Eastern schoolteacher and faces down a rustler, in the novel that defined the Western hero.

Books mentioned in The Virginian (12)

• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: ““DAVID COPPERFIELD.” There it was on the floor.”
• Kenilworth by Walter Scott: “He took out Sir Walter’s Kenilworth once more, and turned the volume over and over.”
• Othello by William Shakespeare: “I have read that play Othello.”
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “I have read Romeo and Juliet.”
• Pippa Passes by Robert Browning: ““Pippa Passes” and others she had to skip, from discreet motives.”
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “He called it The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: “else THE SCARLET LETTER were not historical.”
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: “Howells saw many Silas Laphams with his own eyes; else UNCLE TOM’S CABIN were not historical.”
• Emma by Jane Austen: “he had brought back to her two novels, EMMA and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.”
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: “he had brought back to her two novels, EMMA and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.”
• Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by S. Weir Mitchell: “We know the common understanding of “historical novel.” HUGH WYNNE exactly fits it.”
• The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells: “SILAS LAPHAM is a novel as perfectly historical as is Hugh Wynne.”