Warlock (Oakley Hall)
Warlock is a 1958 novel by the American writer Oakley Hall (1920-2008), which is one of the classics of Wild West literature .
Its plot is based on the historical events surrounding the famous OK Corral shooting in 1881, in which the "gunslingers" Wyatt Earp , Morgan Earp , Virgil Earp and Doc Holliday won a decisive victory against the rampant banditry in the city of Tombstone , Arizona , conquered and restored law and order .
The novel was filmed in 1959 under the direction of Edward Dmytryk with Richard Widmark , Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn in the leading roles, see the article Warlock (1959) .
expenditure
- Warlock . Viking Press, New York 1958. (first edition)
Numerous new editions, most recently:
- Warlock . University of Nevada Press, Reno 1996. ISBN 0874172683
- Warlock . New York Review Books, New York 2006. ISBN 1590171616 (paperback with an introduction by Robert Stone )
The novel has so far 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. pp. 112-34.