Zane Grey, Collection novels Volume ONE

By Zane Grey

Pearl Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the success of his printed works, they later had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions. As of 2012, 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, had been made that were based loosely on his novels and short stories. Grey became one of the first millionaire authors. With his veracity and emotional intensity, he connected with millions of readers worldwide, during peacetime and war, and inspired many Western writers who followed him. Volume ONE In this book: Riders of the Purple Sage The Man of the Forest The Lone Star Ranger The Heritage of the Desert Desert Gold

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150041994X
• ISBN13: 9781500419943
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Too Many, Too Small, Too Much

Content only as I can not directly comment on the physical book itself, but the fact there are five long Zane Grey novels in a book of only 498 pages even though it is an eight by eleven sized book tells me the print is very small or the stories have been abridged. Otherwise this rating would be five stars as there are three of Zane Grey's best novels in this grouping--Riders of the Purple Sage, considered to be the best ever written and the prototype of every one written since; The Heritage of the Desert, my personal favorite; Desert Gold, a romance published in contemporary times when the action along the Mexican border was actually taking place; Man of the Forest, Zane Grey's ecological novel about how man was affecting his environment--Zane Grey was an adherent of much of what Charles Darwin theorized and effectively used "survival of the fittest" to his advantage in many of his works; and Lone Star Ranger, a book which Zane Grey did not actually write, but was the combination of two earlier Zane Grey novels, Last of the Duanes and Rangers of the Lone Star, that were put together by his editor at Harpers to form this book. It became a best seller when it was published in 1915, and remains one of the critic's favorites--I don't personally agree, as the two read separately are much better. But these five novels are great works by the master story teller of the West, and forever will remain so for me. I suggest you get these books separately in hard back because you will want to read them again and again.