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The front matter outlines publication and copyright details, a publisher’s note emphasizing that names, characters, and incidents are fictional, and Library of Congress cataloging data with subject classifications. The table of contents maps the narrative across multiple numbered chapters grouped under distinct regional headings, framing the book’s structure within the Penguin twentieth-century classics series.","Table of Contents  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright Page  \nDedication  \nAcknowledgements  \nIntroduction  \nI-GRASS VALLEY  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nII-NEW ALMADEN  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nIII-SANTA CRUZ  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nIV-LEADVILLE  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nV-MICHOACÁN  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nVI-ON THE BOUGH  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nVII-THE CANYON  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nVIII-THE MESA  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nIX-THE ZODIAC COTTAGE  \nChapter 1  \nRead more Wallace Stegner in Penguin  \nFOR THEBESTIN PAPERBACKS, LOOK FOR THE  \nPENGUIN CLASSICS ANGLE OF REPOSE  \nWallace Stegner ( 1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943; Joe Hill, 1950; All the Little Live Things, 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star, 1961; Angle of Repose, 1971 (Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird, 1976 (National Book Award, 1977); Recapitulation, 1979; and Crossing to Safety, 1987. His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, 1954; Wolf Willow, 1963; The Sound of Mountain Water (essays), 1969; The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, 1974; and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992) . Three of his short stories have won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements. His Collected Stories was published in 1990.  \nJackson J. Benson was born and raised in San Francisco, graduated from Stanford, and received his M.A. from San Francisco State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. From 1966 to 1997 he served as professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University, where he taught twentieth-century American literature. Twice a fellow of the National Endowment of the Humanities, he has published eleven books on modern American literature. Among them is the authorized biography The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer (1984), which won the PEN West USA award for nonfiction. His latest work was the authorized biography Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work (1996), which won the David Woolley and Beatrice Cannon Evans Biography Award.  \nTo request Penguin Readers Guides by mail (while supplies last), please call (800) 778-6425 or e-mail [reading@us.penguingroup.com](reading@us.penguingroup.com).  \nTo access Penguin Readers Guides online, visit our Web site [at](at www.penguin.com)[ ](at www.penguin.com)[www.penguin.com](at www.penguin.com).  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nPublished by the Penguin Group  \nPenguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3  \n(a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) 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