True Grit: A Novel
Charles Portis
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 159020459X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers.
True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true cult status, this is an American classic through and through. This new edition, with a smart new package and an afterword by acclaimed author Donna Tartt, will bring this masterpiece to an even broader audience.
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O’clock that morning them two Wharton boys had rode up there drunk— MR. GOUDY: An objection. MR. BARLOW: This is a dying declaration, your honor. JUDGE PARKER: Overruled. Proceed, Mr. Cogburn. MR. COGBURN: He said them two Wharton boys, Odus and C. C. by name, had rode up there drunk and throwed down on him with a double barrel shotgun and said, “Tell us where your money is, old man.” He would not tell them and they lit some pine knots and held them to his feet and he told them it was in a.
Horse.” “No,” said he, “I will be tied up at the courthouse. There are things I must attend to. We can get off at first light tomorrow. We will cross the ferry for I must pay a call on an informer in the Cherokee Nation.” “I will see you later today and make final plans.” I took dinner at the Monarch. The man LaBoeuf did not appear and I hopefully assumed he had moved on for some distant point. After a brief nap I went to the stock barn and looked over the ponies in the corral. There did not.
Others. He was clinging to the far side of his horse with one leg thrown over for support. If you had not followed the entire “stunt” from start to finish as I had done, you would have thought the horse was riderless. That is how he escaped Rooster’s attention. I was “mesmerized” and proved to be of no help. Now I will back up and tell of the others. Lucky Ned Pepper was bowled over with his horse but he quickly crawled from under the dead beast and cut his saddle wallets free with a knife. The.
Would Moon and Quincy do for mounts?” “They would have the six tired horses.” “Oh. I had forgotten about them.” “It was only a swap for a few days.” “I was thinking that Lucky Ned Pepper might have been planning to murder the two stock thieves. It would have been a treacherous scheme but then they could not inform against him. What do you think?” “No, Ned would not do that.” “Why not? He and his desperate band killed a fireman and an express clerk on the Katy Flyer last night.” “Ned does.
He carries a Henry rifle.” Captain Finch thought about it. He said, “No, the way I got it, there was only the three here. Haze and the Mexican and Ned. We are watching his woman’s house. It is a waste of time and none of my business but I have sent a man out there.” Rooster said, “It is a waste of time all right. I know about where Ned is.” “Yes, I know too but it will take a hundred marshals to smoke him out of there.” “It won’t take that many.” “It wouldn’t take that many Choctaws. How.