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    Code of the West: A Western Story
    Code of the West: A Western Story
    Code of the West: A Western Story
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    Code of the West: A Western Story

    Written by Zane Grey

    Narrated by Danny Campbell

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    Hot-blooded Georgiana Stockwell will break a man’s heart while he’s eating out of her hand. Moving from the East to join her schoolteacher sister in the rugged wilds of Tonto Basin, Arizona, Georgiana makes quite an impression. Despite her sister’s best efforts, Georgiana creates a culture clash as her modern, free-spirited personality comes up against the code of the West, the unwritten law of the range that everyone is expected to follow. Georgiana’s flirtations and coquetry provoke and outrage the proud Westerners of Tonto Basin.

    The young and steadfast Cal Thurman is especially taken with Georgiana. Cal is a man of the West through and through, courageous, loyal, sincere, quiet-spoken, and hardworking. Though she never expected to, Georgiana finds herself falling for this man from another world. But things are not as simple as either of them may want; Georgiana soon realizes that loving Cal means coming up against a heritage of honor and violence she couldn’t have imagined. She’s stirred things up too much, and the pride of the West must be satisfied before things can be settled.

    First published in 1934, Code of the West is another thrilling tale by the greatest novelist of the American West. Better than any other writer, Zane Grey vividly shows the West as it truly was, defining itself through an unwritten code of honor and values, and he details the consequences when an outsider refuses to live by it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 25, 2017
    ISBN9781543606041
    Author

    Zane Grey

    American author (Pearl Zane Grey) is best known as a pioneer of the Western literary genre, which idealized the Western frontier and the men and women who settled the region. Following in his father’s footsteps, Grey studied dentistry while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Grey’s athletic talent led to a short career in the American minor league before he established his dentistry practice. As an outlet to the tedium of dentistry, Grey turned to writing, and finally abandoned his dental practice to write full time. Over the course of his career Grey penned more than ninety books, including the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage. Many of Grey’s novels were adapted for film and television. He died in 1939.

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    • 5/5
      I’ve loved reading and re-reading this author’s books for years! Bad guys are bad, good guys are good, and the women for whom they fight and whom they court are worth it.”
    • 2/5
      I did not like the story. Georgianna was a trouble maker.
    • 3/5
      Full of the usual Zane Grey romantic descriptions of the scenery and western lore. Georgiana is a young woman who comes West to be with her older sister who is the local school teacher. Being young and pretty and having experienced the flapper life style of post WW I America, she startles the locals in the Tonto basin with her dress (above the knees), her slang and her tendency to flirt with any local male. There is talk about women's rights & liberation in this portion of the story.This leads to many misunderstandings until one man kidnaps her and convinces her to marry him through fear even though they already love one another. Sounds odd and I found the marriage part of the plot a wee bit far fetched but Georgiana matures and saves her man, Cal from facing another man in a fight to the death and proves her love for him.
    • 4/5
      very good a little diffifcult to understand at first but once u got it very good
    • 3/5
      I read Zane Grey as a window into earlier times and places. This story, not his most memorable, is about a ranch, the usual cowboy protagonist, and an Eastern flirt who learns to be more settled by the end. It also portrays the early sport of boxing.