King of Spades, Frederick Manfred
King of Spades, Frederick Manfred
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King of Spades

Author: Frederick Manfred

Narrator: Eric G. Dove

Unabridged: 9 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/08/2015

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

Under the veil of one of the oldest and most tragic myths known to humankind, a king is born. Magnus King, the son of a well-born English woman, continues his family’s aristocratic legacy on the frontier of the American West until the night a deadly shooting changes everything. Young Earl Ransom, a man found long ago on the Cheyenne prairie with no memory of his past or of how his destiny is linked to that of Magnus King, finds his way through a tale as old and tragic as the Greek myth of Oedipus.

About Frederick Manfred

Frederick Manfred (1912–94) grew up on a farm in Iowa with six brothers, attended Calvin College in Michigan, and then hitchhiked for two years across America, which provided him with rich material for his novels. He is the author of twenty-four novels, including a five-volume series, The Buckskin Man Tales, which includes Lord Grizzly, a finalist for the 1954 National Book Award, Conquering Horse, Scarlet Plume, King of Spades, and Riders of Judgment.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John

In the 1960s, Minnesota author Frederick Manfred wrote a series of five books that he called the Buckskin Man Series, which helped bring out a fictional history of the area between Wyoming, the Dakotas, Iowa and Minnesota, an area he called "Siouxland." This was the last of the book that I have read......more

Goodreads review by Alex

One of the oddest Westerns I’ve ever read. It’s a whole book basically about the tragic loss of innocence, the Oedipal complex, and straight up incest wrapped in a western veneer. Was it an easy read and were there some good parts? Yes. Would I read it again or recommend it to others? No, probably n......more

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