James Fenimore Cooper: Two Novels of the American Revolution
$65.75
- Hardcover
874 pages
- Release Date
27 November 2018
Summary
The American Revolution comes to vivid life in two dramatic tales of espionage, intrigue, and romance from the author of The Last of Mohicans.
With his second novel, The Spy—A Tale of the Neutral Ground, in 1821, James Cooper (the Fenimore would come later) found his true voice and what became his most enduring subject matter—the history of his young nation, born of the clash between Old World and New. Set largely in Westchester County—site of the real-life intrigues…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598535822 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159853582X |
| Author: | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 874 |
| Release Date: | 27 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 764g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 135mm |
| Series: | Library of America James Fenimore Cooper Edition |
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About The Author
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) grew up at Otsego Hall, his father’s manorial estate in upstate New York. Educated at Yale, he spent five years at sea, before beginning his literary career at thirty with Precaution (1820), a novel of manners. His second book, The Spy (1821), was an immediate success, and with The Pioneers (1823) he began his series of Leatherstocking Tales. By 1826 when The Last of the Mohicans appeared, his standing as a major novelist was established. After several years of writing nonfiction, he returned to fiction-and to Leatherstocking-with The Pathfinder (1840) and The Deerslayer (1841).
Alan Taylor is Thomas Jefferson Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the author of many acclaimed books on early America, including the Pulitzer P rize-winning William Cooper’s Town- Power and Persuasion on the Early American Frontier andAmerican Revolutions- A Continental History, 1750-1804.
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