Romney: And Other New Works about Philadelphia

by Owen Wister

Book Overview

Owen Wister is known to most Americans as the creator of the heroic cowboy in The Virginian (1902). Despite his success as a Western novelist, Wister's failure to write about his native city of Philadelphia has been lamented by many for the loss of a literary "might-have-been." If only, sighed Wister's contemporary Elizabeth Robins Pennell in 1914, the novelist could understand that Philadelphia was as good a subject as the Wild West. Hence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271021217
• ISBN13: 9780271021218
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 7.8"