{"product_id":"the-virginian","title":"The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Penguin Classics) by Owen Wister","description":"\u003cp\u003eDime novels had featured some rather scrawny horse-bound tenders of cattle, but not until 1902 did the cowboy become a fully realized article of American culture. That year Owen Wister, a native of Philadelphia, published the novel that established the conventions of the western. An immediate best seller, it has never faded from public consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOwen Wister \u003c\/b\u003e(1860-1938) was born in Philadelphia and raised in Germantown, Pennsylvania. At age 25, he spent a summer in Wyoming on the advice of his physician. Encouraged by his friend from Harvard, Theodore Roosevelt, he later wrote about his experiences and observations of the American West. His greatest success came in 1902 with the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Virginian\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a bestseller for months and would be dramatized and filmed numerous times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Seelye\u003c\/b\u003e is a graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain at the Movies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProphetic Writers: The River in Early American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Machine: Rivers and the Early Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMemory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWar Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the consulting editor for Penguin Classics in American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46411095081146,"sku":"9780140390650","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_bd425225-5f51-41ef-b476-d50850de95b3.jpg?v=1787327952","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/the-virginian","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}