The Call of the Canyon, with eBook, Zane Grey
The Call of the Canyon, with eBook, Zane Grey
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The Call of the Canyon, with eBook

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: John Bolen

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/09/2009

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

From the master of the western comes a tale of love tested by the rugged life of the American Southwest. Carley Burch, a beautiful young woman, must leave her glamorous high-society life of New York to follow her fiance, Glenn Kilbourne, to the rugged Wild West. She braves fierce ruffians, brutal elements, and lack of civilization in an attempt to reclaim him. Glenn, suffering from shell shock and the betrayal of his country following World War I, had moved west to recover. He then fell in love with the West, and his perspective on life was changed forever. Glenn now finds his previous high-society life repulsive. Can Carley adapt to the rigorous life of the West? Will she be able to convince Glenn to return to his "home" in New York? Will she be in time before a rival temptress steals Glenn away?

About Zane Grey

The prolific American writer Zane Grey was the pioneer of the Western literary genre. Grey produced well over 100 books, in which he presented the West as a moral battleground, where his characters were either destroyed or redeemed. His semi-outlaw heroes were his most enduring creation. He sold some 17 million books during his lifetime, and an estimated 100 Hollywood Western films have been based on his stories.

Born with the name Pearl Grey in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1872, Zane was the son of a farmer and part-time preacher. His mother was a second-generation Danish Quaker. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in dentistry in 1896 and practiced in New York City until 1904. That year, Grey wrote and self-published his first book, Betty Zane, after it was turned down by several publishers. The colorful frontier story was based on his mother's journal and eventually became a critical success. He married Lina Elise Roth, who encouraged him to become a full-time professional writer.

In 1908, Grey made a journey to the West with Colonel C. J. "Buffalo" Jones, who told him tales of adventure on the plains. This trip turned out to be a turning point in Grey's career. In 1912, Riders of the Purple Sage was published. It sold 2 million copies and was filmed three times. Grey's formula-in which a mysterious outlaw fights to protect the innocent and the good-shows up in many of his novels. In 1918, he moved to Altadena, California, where he lived for the rest of his life. Grey died on October 23, 1939.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian on August 26, 2013

I have never read a Western, and I tackled this one primarily to have some exposure to the genre before I dismissed it. I was surprised how thought-provoking it was, especially as the author juxtaposes two ages and two types to great effect. Who thinks about the seismic changes of World War I and th......more

Goodreads review by Éowyn on September 20, 2017

Westerns have their fair share of space on my favorites shelf... In addition, two of Zane Grey's other works even have their own place on the list of my heart-stories, and I think The Call of the Canyon, may just have joined them there. My full review can be read here. SPOILER ALERT: I LOVED THIS STO......more

Goodreads review by Malachi on January 02, 2020

I listened to this one read from LibriVox, and I thought it was decent until the end. It was more of a Romance than a western, which wasn't what I was expecting, but even so it was ok. A lot of kissing between an engaged couple, but nothing inappropriate. Throughout most of the story a respect was s......more

Goodreads review by Wayne on January 15, 2012

It is 1919 and Carley Burch is a young orphaned woman who lives a socialite’s life of ease and pleasure in her New York City family home with her aunt Mary. Her fiancé Glenn Kilbourne has come home an injured, sick, and broken man after fighting in France during World War I, so he has gone West to A......more

Goodreads review by Louis on October 03, 2022

A seemingly old-fashioned western written by the old master of the genre, this book turns out to be quite modern for its time. The heroine, Carley Burch, is an honest-to-goodness flapper, a must fror a novel published and set in 1924. Leaving her home in New York, Carley sets out to Arizona. Her fia......more