the ox bow incident by walter van tilburg clark

The dust jacket shows the original retail price of #2.00 and is moderately chipped at the spine and fold tops and slightly so at the spine bottom but is intact and not soiled or torn and the spine is not faded. Theree is aalso small stamp on the upper ffep that says USS Ramona with a small ink initialed signature. the gutter channels on the front free and rear free endpapers are deeply stained (probably from the binding glue used to adhere them to the inside front and rear boards as it also trace the edges of the pastedown in a perfect shape of the boards. The boards are bound in a wheatstraw cloth, the topstain iand foredges are clean,as is the book internally, and the spine titles are bright. This is a stated first printing of Walter Van Tilburg Clark's THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, published by Random House in 1940. The stories in The Watchful Gods will offer contemporary readers fresh insight into Clark s unique genius.Hardcover. Clark remains one of the West s most significant writers, among the first to explore the complicated interactions between humankind and the West s vast and often haunted landscape. A foreword by Ann Ronald sets the stories into the context of Clark s oeuvre and career and illuminates the way they reveal crucial characteristics of this complicated writer s imagination.

This new paperback edition which includes ‘Hook,’ Clark s most renowned story makes these remarkable pieces available again to a new generation of readers.

The collection Clark’s only published volume of short fiction was well received by reviewers, and subsequent critics have noted that these stories reflect both Clark s literary power and the major concerns of his novels: the interior and intuitive complexities of good and evil, and the fragile, intricate web that connects humankind to the rest of the natural world. Milton, ‘did perhaps more than anyone else to define in his fiction the mode of perception, the acquisition of knowledge, and the style which we tend to call Western.’ In 1950, Clark, author of the acclaimed novel The Ox Bow Incident published a collection of short stories that had already won distinction in various national magazines. Walter Van Tilburg Clark, according to critic John R. Classic stories by a major writer of the modern West.

The ox bow incident by walter van tilburg clark