Bibliographic Information
- Title
- "The ox-bow incident"
- Statement of Responsibility
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark ; introduction by Wallace Stegner ; [commentary by Clifton Fadiman and L.L. Lee]
- Publisher
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- Modern Library
- Publication Year
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- 2004
- Book size
- 18 cm
- Series Name / No
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- : pbk
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Notes
Summary: Set in 1885, The ox-bow incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. As Wallace Stegner writes, [Clark's] theme was civilization, and he recorded, indelibly, its first steps in a new country
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1130282271400783744
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- NII Book ID
- BA81619039
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- ISBN
- 0812972589
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- LCCN
- 00064584
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- Web Site
- https://lccn.loc.gov/00064584
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Country Code
- us
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- Title Language Code
- en
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- Place of Publication
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- New York
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- Subject
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- LCSH: Lynching -- Fiction
- LCSH: Mobs -- Fiction
- LCSH: Nevada -- Fiction
- FREE: Western stories. gsafd
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- Data Source
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- CiNii Books
