The Camp Robber and Other Stories

By Zane Grey

Book Overview

Stories in this collection center around isolated men embarking upon a journey, ranging from a man who has driven away his wife and who yearns for reconciliation to an old man who realized the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000GX6QC2
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Walter J Black
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Strange Things Were Stolen

There is a vast difference in the contents between the Curley Large Print edition compared to the original Walter J. Black edition. The WJB collection of short stories or novellas contains some of the best short work by Zane Grey. Some of them have since then been reprinted in other collections, and stand alone volumes under other titles. But at the time of this printing none of these stories had appeared in book form except in the Walter J. Black edition of the Zane Grey Collection. The lead story, The Camp Robber had appeared in McCall's Magazine in 1928; Amber's Mirage in Ladies' Home Journal in 1929; Fantoms of Peace in Munsey's in 1913; but the other three On Location; John Silver's Revenge, and Loose Bridles had never been published previously. All in all, this collection represents both Zane Grey's earliest work, and some of his later material written in the 1930's when his fame had waned, and the Depression had dried up many of the markets where he used to sell his work. That in no way lessens the value or content of the work, nor the entertainment one can enjoy from reading a Zane Grey story. I highly recommend this book. The Curley Large Print book does not have On Location; John Silver's Revenge, or Loose Bridles, but does include a story titled The Sheepherder which is the last 8 chapters of the novel, The Shepherd of Guadaloupe. Large Print books often left out stories or added stories. So be sure of what you want.