Classics Book Discussion: Riders of the Purple Sage In-Person
The first session of the Classics Book Discussion Group meets the last Wednesday of each month at 7 PM. The second session of the Classics Book Discussion Group meets on the last Thursday of each month at 2 PM. Registration is not required.
- Date:
- Wednesday, July 27, 2022
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Community Room
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Book Discussion
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will. Lassiter is on his own quest, one that ends when he discovers a secret grave on Jane’s grounds. “[Zane Grey’s] popularity was neither accidental nor undeserved,” wrote Nye. “Few popular novelists have possessed such a grasp of what the public wanted and few have developed Grey’s skill at supplying it.”