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The Dragon Of Wantley

by Owen Wister

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1892
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  1. Prefaces

    3:39

  2. Chapter I

    16:47

  3. Chapter II

    15:47

  4. Chapter III

    9:52

  5. Chapter IV

    14:59

  6. Chapter V

    15:43

  7. Chapter VI

    23:27

  8. Chapter VII

    26:24

  9. Chapter VIII

    34:40

  10. Chapter IX

    19:54

  11. Chapter X

    25:58

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The Dragon of Wantley (1892) is an early comic novel by Owen Wister (1860-1938), the Philadelphia writer who a decade later invented the modern Western with The Virginian. Published by J.B. Lippincott with illustrations by John Stewardson, the book carries the full title The Dragon of Wantley: His Rise, His Voracity, and His Downfall. Wister spins a mock-medieval burlesque out of the old Yorkshire ballad of the same name, the ballad that had already fueled Henry Carey's 1737 comic opera, and sets his romance at an English manor during a snowbound thirteenth-century Christmas. The book sold steadily, reaching a fifth edition by 1903. It survives as a glimpse of Wister's playful side before the cowboy fame arrived. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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Owen Wister

Owen Wister was an American writer. His novel The Virginian, published in 1902, helped create the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and built Wister's reputation as the "father of Western fiction."

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First published
1892
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
103
Language
English
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Audio read by
D. A. Frank