Wolfville Anthology

Fiction & Literature, Humorous, Westerns, Action Suspense
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Author: Alfred Henry Lewis ISBN: 1230002335896
Publisher: Steve Gabany Publication: May 23, 2018
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Alfred Henry Lewis
ISBN: 1230002335896
Publisher: Steve Gabany
Publication: May 23, 2018
Imprint:
Language: English

This is the complete, unabrigded collection of Alfred Lewis' five Wolfville novels -- Wolfville, Wolfville Days, Wolfnights, Wolfville Folks, and Faro Nell and Her Friends. It is widely believed that Lewis patterned Wolfville after the real town of Tombstone, Arizona. Written in the early 1900s, Lewis most likely was poking fun at the more-traditional Western Cowboy novels of the time.

The five novels include a recurring core of hilarious characters, including a divorced gunslinger, a philosophical faro dealer, a doctor, a tyrannical wife who owns and runs a boarding house/restaurant, and the head of the lynching committee, who is only too happy to string anyone and everyone up. While sitting on the porch smoking and drinking, the "Old Gentleman" narrates, in assumed-Cowboy-dialect, often-jangling interactions between the permanent and episodes temporary Wolfville residents.

Lewis is acknowledged to have written the funniest set of Western Cowboy stories ever, A number of his stories, including those featuring Faro Nell and Texas Thompson, were turned into files around 1920.

Included in this Illustrated Edition are all of the original illustrations, from all five works, rejuvenated.

Alfred Henry Lewis (January 20, 1855 - December 23, 1914) was an American investigative journalist, lawyer, novelist, editor, and short story writer. He began his career as a staff writer at the Chicago Times, and eventually became editor of the Chicago Times-Herald.

During the late 19th century, he wrote muckraker articles for Cosmopolitan. As an investigative journalist, Lewis wrote extensively about corruption in New York politics. This was the subject of his book The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New York, which focused on the Tammany Hall society of the 18th century. He also wrote biographies of Irish-American politician Richard Croker (1843-1922), and of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States.

As a writer of genre fiction, his most successful works were in his Wolfville series of Western fiction, which he continued writing until he died of gastrointestinal disease in 1914.

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This is the complete, unabrigded collection of Alfred Lewis' five Wolfville novels -- Wolfville, Wolfville Days, Wolfnights, Wolfville Folks, and Faro Nell and Her Friends. It is widely believed that Lewis patterned Wolfville after the real town of Tombstone, Arizona. Written in the early 1900s, Lewis most likely was poking fun at the more-traditional Western Cowboy novels of the time.

The five novels include a recurring core of hilarious characters, including a divorced gunslinger, a philosophical faro dealer, a doctor, a tyrannical wife who owns and runs a boarding house/restaurant, and the head of the lynching committee, who is only too happy to string anyone and everyone up. While sitting on the porch smoking and drinking, the "Old Gentleman" narrates, in assumed-Cowboy-dialect, often-jangling interactions between the permanent and episodes temporary Wolfville residents.

Lewis is acknowledged to have written the funniest set of Western Cowboy stories ever, A number of his stories, including those featuring Faro Nell and Texas Thompson, were turned into files around 1920.

Included in this Illustrated Edition are all of the original illustrations, from all five works, rejuvenated.

Alfred Henry Lewis (January 20, 1855 - December 23, 1914) was an American investigative journalist, lawyer, novelist, editor, and short story writer. He began his career as a staff writer at the Chicago Times, and eventually became editor of the Chicago Times-Herald.

During the late 19th century, he wrote muckraker articles for Cosmopolitan. As an investigative journalist, Lewis wrote extensively about corruption in New York politics. This was the subject of his book The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New York, which focused on the Tammany Hall society of the 18th century. He also wrote biographies of Irish-American politician Richard Croker (1843-1922), and of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States.

As a writer of genre fiction, his most successful works were in his Wolfville series of Western fiction, which he continued writing until he died of gastrointestinal disease in 1914.

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