Mother

Name: Mother
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Owen Wister
ISBN: 9798886422429

Author: Owen Wister

Narrator: David Griffin

Unabridged: 1 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio

Published: 09/26/2023

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 - July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing a biography of Ulysses S. Grant and the novel The Virginian, in which Wister created the archetypal cowboy.

About Owen Wister

The scion of a wealthy Germantown family, Owen Wister (1860-1938) showed promise as a musician early in his life, but his father directed him into a career in banking and then the law. Plagued with neurasthenia, Wister took a variant of the "rest cure" of Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, traveling to Wyoming on Mitchell's advice. From these experiences, Wister began to write short stories about the West. His Western writing culminated in the 1902 publication of The Virginian, the most popular Western ever. In addition to novels, Wister wrote short stories, operas, plays, poetry, and nonfiction, including biographies of Ulysses S. Grant and George Washington.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on September 14, 2021

It is a lovely short story set in the early twentieth century, or perhaps the end of the nineteenth century, New York City. It concerns the hazards of investments at that time, and the brilliance of a prospective bride when faced with a less than successful prospective husband, at least at investing......more