John Brent (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Western NovelBy Theodore Winthrop
Length8h 29m
About this audiobook
Theodore Winthrop's John Brent is a vigorous frontier romance that transforms the antebellum American West into a landscape of moral testing, physical daring, and national possibility. Centered on pursuit, disguise, loyalty, and the almost mythic horse Don Fulano, the novel blends melodramatic adventure with sharply observed travel writing. Its energetic prose, picturesque scenery, and chivalric codes place it between Cooper's frontier fiction and the later Western, while its Pacific settings reflect a nation imaginatively expanding beyond the Mississippi. Winthrop was unusually prepared to write such a book. A Yale-educated New Englander, born in 1828, he traveled widely through Europe and the American West, absorbing the landscapes, peoples, and political tensions that would animate his fiction. His journeys through California, Oregon, and the Northwest also informed The Canoe and the Saddle. His literary career was brief: he enlisted for the Union and was killed at Big Bethel in 1861, making John Brent part of his posthumous reputation. Readers interested in the origins of American Western literature will find John Brent especially rewarding. It offers not merely adventure, but a revealing record of how mid-nineteenth-century Americans imagined character, landscape, mobility, and destiny on the frontier.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure
Length8 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 14, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
19A Gallop of Three
2Auri Sacre Fames
20Faster
3Gerrian’s Ranch
21A Horse
4Don Fulano
22Luggernel Springs
5John Brent
23Champagne
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6Across Country
24An Idyl of the Rockys
7Jake Shamberlain
25Drapetomania
8Enter, the Brutes
26Noblesse Oblige
9A Mormon Caravan
27Ham
10Sizzum and His Heretics
28Fulano’s Blood-Stain
11“Ellen! Ellen!”
29Short’s Cut-Off
12Father and Daughter
30A Lost Trail
13A Ghoul at the Feast
31London
14Jake Shamberlain’s Ball
32A Dwarf
15Hugh Clitheroe
33Padiham’s Shop
16A Lover
34“Cast Thy Bread Upon the Waters”
17Armstrong
35The Last of a Love-Chase
18Caitiff Baffles Ogre
36Memorable Quotes
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