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Meanings of western fiction in English

Russian
вестерн
Portuguese
western
Spanish
ficción del oeste
Catalan
western

Multimedia genre of stories set primarily in the American Old West.

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        вестерн
        Russian
        литературный вестерн
        Spanish
        narrativa western
        Catalan
        literatura western

        Literary genre.

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              литературный вестерн
              Synonyms
              Examples for "western literature"
              Examples for "western literature"
              1
              Argos, Odysseus's loyal hound, is one of the first dogs in western literature.
              The Guardian
              2
              This town has lately crept modestly into our western literature as "Friendship Village."
              The French in the Heart of America
              3
              Meanwhile, I kept getting books in English that I enjoyed reading, most of them western literature.
              The Guardian
              4
              Meanwhile, as we have said, the Arabs, far from destroying the western literature, were its chief preservers.
              A History of Science — Volume 2
              5
              How to find the words, in English, for one of the oldest and most influential texts in western literature?
              The Irish Times
              Usage of western fiction in English
              1
              Clint, like many heroes of western fiction, appears to tend towards a libertarian class of conservatism.
              The Irish Times
              2
              Mahfouz was widely read in western fiction and particularly admired Flaubert, Stendhal, and Proust, and Melville's Moby Dick.
              The Guardian