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The Deerslayer, or, The First War-Path

The Deerslayer, or, The First War-Path - The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper

Hardback (09 Jan 1987)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Written during a nostalgic interval during Cooper's stormy battles with the Whig Press, The Deerslayer (1841) is the last of the world-famous Leatherstocking Tales in point of composition, though first in the biographical sequence. Employing physical adventure and violence in a mythopoetic setting drawn largely from his own youthful experience, Cooper evokes the stages of Natty's initiation as a subtly allegorical medium for instilling permanent values, values he thought should pervade the conduct of the American press and all segments of American society. According to Edmund Wilson, this book-which D. H. Lawrence called "the loveliest and best" of the Leatherstocking series-contains description which "owes its power, like Melville's description of the Pacific or one of Poe's pieces on landscape gardening, to an emotional content which has charged the object and transformed it into a symbol. And the action has a reality which we recognize and accept as we read: the reality of a dream full of danger." - The Shock of Recognition

Book information

ISBN: 9780873953610
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: SUNY Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.2
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 682
Weight: 1157g
Height: 235mm
Width: 159mm
Spine width: 44mm