Wister: 54 books

A striking presentation of facts about the British Empire, a plea for a better understanding of the English by Americans and a powerful argument for Anglo-American friendship.

Il est des influences et des forces qui ont le pouvoir d’évoquer le passé d’une façon plus frappante encore que les rêves, par des opérations qui nous paraissent tenir de la magie et rappellent les cercles, les baguettes et les paroles cabalistiques des contes de fées. Sollicités par ces...

This antiquarian book contains a collection of short stories that together form a novel. It is a romance novel in a Western setting, with the story unravelling in the open range and within the frontier towns of Wyoming in the 1880s. Although the narrative is primarily a portrayal of an admirable young...

Set during the medieval Crusades and intended for adults as well as children, this humorous 1892 medieval fantasy/fairy-tale was variously described by the author as a “likely story” and “a romance.” Subtitled “His Rise, His Voracity, and His Downfall” in other editions, it baffled some reviewers but amused many others.

The novel begins with an unnamed narrator's arrival in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, from back East and his encounter with an impressively tall and handsome stranger who proves adept at roping horses, teasing a friend who is off to be married, and facing down a fellow gambler, Trampas, with a pistol and...

Extrait : Partout, deux et deux font quatre ; et cela est aussi vrai à Berlin qu’à Washington ou dans les îles des Caraïbes. Mais à moins que la race humaine ne devienne la même partout, peut- on traiter de l’art de gouverner comme on traite des...

When Betsinda held the Rose And the Ring decked Giglio's finger Thackeray! 'twas sport to linger With thy wise, gay-hearted prose. Books were merry, goodness knows! When Betsinda held the Rose. Who but foggy drudglings doze While Rob Gilpin toasts thy witches, While the Ghost waylays thy breeches, Ingoldsby?...

The classic novel of post-Civil War Charleston life, a portrayal of the process of healing the wounds of war through reconciliation between Northerners and Southerners on a personal, not political, level. Southern Classics Series.

Ten classic westerns from arguably some of the top western writers of all time. Salomy Jane (1898) The Virginian, A Horseman Of The Plains (1902) The Log of a Cowboy (1903) Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) The Lone Star Ranger (1915) Wildfire (1917) Cabin Fever (1918) The Treasure Trail (1918) The Mysterious Rider (1921) Black Jack (1922)