The Deerslayer Or, the First War-Path |
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| Author:
| Cooper, James Fenimore |
| Introduction by:
| Fiedler, Leslie |
| Series title: | Modern Library Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-375-76087-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2002 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $32.99 |
Book Description:
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Set during the French and Indian Wars,
The Deerslayer vividly captures the essence of both the murderous humanity and the natural beauty that distinguished America’s founding. The last of Cooper’s famous Leatherstocking Tales, it is first chronologically in the frontier adventures of the backwoods scout Natty Bumppo. Amid a terrain largely inspired by Cooper’s own boyhood, Natty’s initiation in the moral codes of wilderness society is examined in what is,...
More DescriptionSet during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the essence of both the murderous humanity and the natural beauty that distinguished America’s founding. The last of Cooper’s famous Leatherstocking Tales, it is first chronologically in the frontier adventures of the backwoods scout Natty Bumppo. Amid a terrain largely inspired by Cooper’s own boyhood, Natty’s initiation in the moral codes of wilderness society is examined in what is, according to D. H. Lawrence, “the loveliest and best” of the Leatherstocking series.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive text established by James Franklin Beard and James P. Elliott, which is the Approved Text of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.