The Essential Max Brand - 29 Westerns in One Edition (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. With The Dan Barry Series & The Ronicky Doone Trilogy: The Untamed, The Night Horseman…By Max Brand, Frederick Schiller Faust
Length167h 52m
About this audiobook
The Essential Max Brand - 29 Westerns in One Edition gathers a substantial body of frontier fiction that helped define the popular Western in the early twentieth century. Across tales of wandering gunmen, outlaw codes, harsh landscapes, contested justice, and moral testing, the collection displays a striking range: swift adventure, psychological conflict, romance, melodrama, and mythic confrontation. These works belong to the pulp and popular magazine tradition, yet they also reveal a sophisticated command of archetype and narrative momentum. Max Brand was the best-known pen name of Frederick Schiller Faust, an extraordinarily prolific writer whose fiction shaped modern genre storytelling. Writing during the rise of mass-market magazines and the consolidation of the Western as a national mythology, Faust transformed familiar frontier materials into meditations on honor, loneliness, violence, and self-invention. The volume's breadth shows how one literary persona could contain many voices, from hard-edged action to lyrical reflection. This edition is ideal for readers seeking a concentrated encounter with classic Western fiction and its cultural imagination. It offers scholars, students, and enthusiasts a valuable opportunity to trace recurring motifs, stylistic variations, and evolving frontier ideals within a single expansive volume.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, Literary Classics
Length167 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 18, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Essential Max Brand - 29 Westerns in One Edition (Annotated)
26RONICKY DOONE’S REWARD (pt. 2)
2Introduction
27RONICKY DOONE’S REWARD (pt. 3)
3Historical Context
28RONICKY DOONE’S REWARD (pt. 4)
4Synopsis (Selection)
29Other Novels
5The Dan Barry Series
30ABOVE THE LAW (pt. 1)
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6THE UNTAMED
31ABOVE THE LAW (pt. 2)
710. THE STRENGTH OF WOMEN
32HARRIGAN! (pt. 1)
820. ONE TRAIL ENDS
33HARRIGAN! (pt. 2)
931. "LAUGH, DAMN IT!"
34HARRIGAN! (pt. 3)
10THE NIGHT HORSEMAN (pt. 1)
35TRAILIN'!
11THE NIGHT HORSEMAN (pt. 2)
3613. A TOUCH OF CRIMSON
12THE NIGHT HORSEMAN (pt. 3)
3726. “THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON”
13THE NIGHT HORSEMAN (pt. 4)
3838. BACON
14THE SEVENTH MAN (pt. 1)
39RIDERS OF THE SILENCES (Luck) (pt. 1)
15THE SEVENTH MAN (pt. 2)
40RIDERS OF THE SILENCES (Luck) (pt. 2)
16THE SEVENTH MAN (pt. 3)
41RIDERS OF THE SILENCES (Luck) (pt. 3)
17THE SEVENTH MAN (pt. 4)
42RIDERS OF THE SILENCES (Luck) (pt. 4)
18The Ronicky Doone Trilogy
43CROSSROADS (pt. 1)
19RONICKY DOONE
44CROSSROADS (pt. 2)
2011. A CROSS-EXAMINATION
45CROSSROADS (pt. 3)
2121. THE MIRACLE
46CROSSROADS (pt. 4)
22RONICKY DOONE’S TREASURE (pt. 1)
47THE MAN WHO FORGOT CHRISTMAS
23RONICKY DOONE’S TREASURE (pt. 2)
48BLACK JACK (pt. 1)
24RONICKY DOONE’S TREASURE (pt. 3)
49BLACK JACK (pt. 2)
25RONICKY DOONE’S REWARD (pt. 1)
50BLACK JACK (pt. 3)
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The Man Who Forgot Christmas (Annotated)Max Brand3h 10m$2 · $0.00
Der Junge, der Weihnachten fand (Kommentiert)Max Brand3h 50m$1 · $0.00
The Boy Who Found Christmas (Annotated)Max Brand3h 20m$2 · $0.00
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