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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour | ||
| Author: | Louis L'Amour | ||
| ISBN: | 0553803573 | ||
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With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer – who The Wall Street Journal recently compared with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson – will receive his due as a great storyteller. This volume kicks off a series that will, when complete, anthologize all of L'Amour’s short fiction, volume by handsome volume. Here, in Volume One, is a treasure-trove of 35 frontier tales for his millions of fans and for those who have yet to discover L'Amour’s thrilling prose – and his vital role in capturing the spirit of the Old West for generations to come. Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories, Vol. 1 FROM THE PUBLISHER With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer - who The Wall Street Journal recently compared with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson - will receive his due as a great storyteller. This volume kicks off a series that will, when complete, anthologize all of L'Amour's short fiction, volume by handsome volume. FROM THE CRITICS Library Journal Tell Sackett tries his hand as a doughnut maker; a white woman makes friends with Cochise, the Apache chieftain; Finn Mahone foils an insidious plot to take control of the Lazy K Ranch. These and 31 other tales of courage in the Old West fill this volume of western morality tales by the multi-award-winning L'Amour. These are stories of hard men in worse places, youths winning their way to manhood, and women standing firm for what they believe. The novella Rustler Roundup would have made a fine Gene Autry movie. Pure reading pleasure for anyone who enjoys the triumph of good over evil and courage over cowardice. Recommended for all libraries carrying western fiction.-Ken St. Andre, Phoenix P.L. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Kirkus Reviews The first anthology in a series gathers frontier stories by the superbly stylish late L'Amour. Winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and of the Congressional Gold Medal, L'Amour wrote 90 novels and 26 collections of stories, aside from nonfiction, a memoir, and a volume of poetry. His recent four volumes of posthumous titles, capped by With These Hands (2002), are now followed by Volume One of his frontier stories, with 36 entries, the first volume of reissues of his complete short stories by subject matter. As it happens, all 120-plus of his books are still in print and have sold 270 million copies worldwide, with 45 of his novels and stories filmed by Hollywood or television (rent John Wayne in Hondo for one of the best), altogether seemingly a record unmatched by any American writer in any genre, living or dead. The new series kicks off marvelously with "The Gift of Cochise," a tense, white-lipped, double-barreled story about a frontier mother facing down a band of Apaches led by Cochise. Library of America, eat your heart out.
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