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Romney : And Other New Works About Philadelphia By Owen Wister by Owen Wister is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Owen Wister is known to most Americans as the creator of the heroic cowboy in The Virginian (1902). Despite his success as a Western novelist, Wister's failure to write about his native city of Philadelphia has been lamented by many for the loss of a literary "might-have-been." If only, sighed Wister's contemporary Elizabeth Robins Pennell in 1914, the novelist could understand that Philadelphia was as good a subject as the Wild West. Hence the surprise when James Butler uncovered a substantial
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- Author
- Owen Wister
- Publisher
- University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780271030906
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- History, Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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