#1 New York Times bestseller
"An epic and a legend" --Washington Post
"Quite simply, an American masterpiece." --Boston Globe
"The dialogue in True Grit is exquisite." --David Mamet
"Charles Portis had...
The #1 New York Times bestselling classic frontier adventure novel, with over two million copies in print True Grit 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...
The Young Readers Edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller, with over two million copies in print, is now available for a whole new generation of Portis fans, complete with the full text of the classic novel, a new afterword, and a readers guide. True...
The landmark anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic novel, "an epic and a legend" (The Washington Post) Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's most enduring and incomparable literary voices, and his novels...
This book is Portiss most famous novel and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl from Arkansas in the 1870s, who sets out one winter to avenge the murder of her father.
True Grit is the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and the Academy Award(R) winning 2010 version starring Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers. True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward...