Wildfire (Summarized Edition)

di Andrew Ellis (Autore)

Zane Grey (Autore)

Fiona Merriweather (Autore)

Quickie Classics, 2026

Wildfire follows a legendary red stallion whose capture and contested claim entangle a solitary horse-hunter and a rancher's daughter amid rivalry, theft, and desert peril. Grey alternates breathless pursuit and race scenes with meditative landscape pages, his luminous prose mapping mesas and sage. Placed within the early twentieth-century Western, the novel tests domestication against freedom and pits outlaw menace against the range's stern code. Zane Grey, a former dentist turned bestselling chronicler of the frontier, drew on repeated trips through Arizona and Utah with cowboys and local guides. An avid outdoorsman and meticulous note-taker, he fused Romantic reverence for wilderness with Progressive-Era anxieties about exploitation; the result is credible horsemanship, ethnographic texture, and a moral imagination disciplined by hard country. Recommended for readers of Western fiction, nature writing, and equine narratives, Wildfire marries narrative velocity to sensory precision. Scholars of American mythmaking will find a key text, while general readers will discover a moving meditation on loyalty and restraint. Read it for its indelible horse and its desert sublime. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

• Autore: Andrew Ellis, Zane Grey, Fiona Merriweather
• Curatore: Quickie Classics
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Quickie Classics
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 8596547879961