Warlock (Hall novel)

Warlock is a 1958 published novel by American writer Oakley Hall ( 1920-2008 ), one of the classics of the Wild West literature.

Its plot is based on the historical events surrounding the famous gunfight at the OK Corral 1881, in which the " gunslingers " Wyatt Earp, Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp and Doc Holliday a decisive victory against the pervasive banditry in the town of Tombstone Arizona, and won again manufactured law and order.

The novel was made ​​into a film in 1959, directed by Edward Dmytryk with Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn in the lead roles, please refer to the article Warlock ( 1959).

Expenditure

• Warlock. Viking Press, New York 1958. ( First edition )

Numerous editions, most recently:

• Warlock. University of Nevada Press, Reno 1996. ISBN 0874172683
• Warlock. New York Review Books, New York, 2006. ISBN 1590171616 ( paperback edition with an introduction by Robert Stone)

The novel has been translated into French and Spanish, a German translation is still pending.

Secondary literature

• Robert Murray David: Time and Space in the Western: Warlock as Novel and Film. In: South Dakota Review 29:1, 1991, pp. 68-75. .
• Robert Murray David: Playing Cowboys: Low Culture and High Art in the Western. Oklahoma University Press, Norman OK 1994. ISBN 0806126272
• Brian Garfield: Warlock Revisited: The Vanishing Western. In: South Dakota Review 23, 1985, pp. 72-101. .
• Thomas Pynchon: A Gift of Books. In: Holiday 38:6, 1965, pp. 164-5. .
• James C. Work: The Violent God in Oakley Hall's novel, Warlock. In: South Dakota Review 23, 1985, p 112-34. .

• Literary work
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Literature (United States)
• Novel, epic
• Western literature