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Best Selling Books by James Fenimore COOPERJames Fenimore COOPER is the author of The Last of the Mohicans-Original Edition(Annotated) (2020), The Pioneers, the Original Classic Novel (2015), The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper (Illustrated Edition) (2021), The Works Of James Fenimore Cooper: Sea-lions (2019), The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) (2017).
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The Last of the Mohicans-Original Edition(Annotated)
release date: Aug 11, 2020
The Pioneers, the Original Classic Novel
release date: Apr 27, 2015
As this work professes, in its title-page, to be a descriptive tale, they who will take the trouble to read it may be glad to know how much of its contents is literal fact, and how much is intended to represent a general picture. The author is very sensible that, had he confined himself to the latter, always the most effective, as it is the most valuable, mode of conveying knowledge of this nature, he would have made a far better book. But in commencing to describe scenes, and perhaps he may add characters, that were so familiar to his own youth, there was a constant temptation to delineate that which he had known, rather than that which he might have imagined. This rigid adhesion to truth, an indispensable requisite in history and travels, destroys the charm of fiction; for all that is necessary to be conveyed to the mind by the latter had better be done by delineations of principles, and of characters in their classes, than by a too fastidious attention to originals. New York having but one county of Otsego, and the Susquehanna but one proper source, there can be no mistake as to the site of the tale. The history of this district of country, so far as it is connected with civilized men, is soon told. Otsego, in common with most of the interior of the province of New York, was included in the county of Albany previously to the war of the separation. It then became, in a subsequent division of territory, a part of Montgomery; and finally, having obtained a sufficient population of its own, it was set apart as a county by itself shortly after the peace of 1783. It lies among those low spurs of the Alleghanies which cover the midland counties of New York, and it is a little east of a meridional line drawn through the centre of the State. As the waters of New York flow either southerly into the Atlantic or northerly into Ontario and its outlet, Otsego Lake, being the source of the Susquehanna, is of necessity among its highest lands. The face of the country, the climate as it was found by the whites, and the manners of the settlers, are described with a minuteness for which the author has no other apology than the force of his own recollections. Otsego is said to be a word compounded of Ot, a place of meeting, and Sego, or Sago, the ordinary term of salutation used by the Indians of this region. There is a tradition which says that the neighboring tribes were accustomed to meet on the banks of the lake to make their treaties, and otherwise to strengthen their alliances, and which refers the name to this practice. As the Indian agent of New York had a log dwelling at the foot of the lake, however, it is not impossible that the appellation grew out of the meetings that were held at his council fires; the war drove off the agent, in common with the other officers of the crown; and his rude dwelling was soon abandoned. The author remembers it, a few years later, reduced to the humble office of a smoke-house.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper (Illustrated Edition)
release date: May 10, 2021
The Works Of James Fenimore Cooper: Sea-lions
release date: Mar 26, 2019
The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
release date: Jul 17, 2017
The Prairie, the Original Classic Novel
release date: Apr 27, 2015
The travellers soon discovered the usual and unerring evidences that the several articles necessary to their situation were not far distant. A clear and gurgling spring burst out of the side of the declivity, and joining its waters to those of other similar little fountains in its vicinity, their united contributions formed a run, which was easily to be traced, for miles along the prairie, by the scattering foliage and verdure which occasionally grew within the influence of its moisture. Hither, then, the stranger held his way, eagerly followed by the willing teams, whose instinct gave them a prescience of refreshment and rest. On reaching what he deemed a suitable spot, the old man halted, and with an enquiring look, he seemed to demand if it possessed the needed conveniences. The leader of the emigrants cast his eyes, understandingly, about him, and examined the place with the keenness of one competent to judge of so nice a question, though in that dilatory and heavy manner, which rarely permitted him to betray precipitation. "Ay, this may do," he said, satisfied with his scrutiny; "boys, you have seen the last of the sun; be stirring." The young men manifested a characteristic obedience. The order, for such in tone and manner it was, in truth, was received with respect; but the utmost movement was the falling of an axe or two from the shoulder to the ground, while their owners continued to regard the place with listless and incurious eyes. In the mean time, the elder traveller, as if familiar with the nature of the impulses by which his children were governed, disencumbered himself of his pack and rifle, and, assisted by the man already mentioned as disposed to appeal so promptly to the rifle, he quietly proceeded to release the cattle from the gears. At length the eldest of the sons stepped heavily forward, and, without any apparent effort, he buried his axe to the eye, in the soft body of a cotton-wood tree. He stood, a moment, regarding the effect of the blow, with that sort of contempt with which a giant might be supposed to contemplate the puny resistance of a dwarf, and then flourishing the implement above his head, with the grace and dexterity with which a master of the art of offence would wield his nobler though less useful weapon, he quickly severed the trunk of the tree, bringing its tall top crashing to the earth in submission to his prowess. His companions regarded the operation with indolent curiosity, until they saw the prostrate trunk stretched on the ground, when, as if a signal for a general attack had been given, they advanced in a body to the work, and in a space of time, and with a neatness of execution that would have astonished an ignorant spectator, they stripped a small but suitable spot of its burden of forest, as effectually, and almost as promptly, as if a whirlwind had passed along the place. The stranger had been a silent but attentive observer of their progress. As tree after tree came whistling down, he cast his eyes upward at the vacancies they left in the heavens, with a melancholy gaze, and finally turned away, muttering to himself with a bitter smile, like one who disdained giving a more audible utterance to his discontent. Pressing through the group of active and busy children, who had already lighted a cheerful fire, the attention of the old man became next fixed on the movements of the leader of the emigrants and of his savage looking assistant.
The Last Of The Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper Annotated Edition
release date: Aug 29, 2020
The Pathfinder; Or, the Inland Sea. by J. Fenimore Cooper.
release date: Sep 01, 2006
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper "The Annotated Classic Edition"
release date: Dec 29, 2020
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
release date: Jul 17, 2017
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
release date: Aug 17, 2017
The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
release date: Mar 29, 2018
James Fenimore Cooper - the Prairie
release date: Dec 13, 2016
Deerslayer ˜by James Fenimore Cooperœ
The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper Annotated
release date: Jul 25, 2021
The Last of the Mohicans. A Narrative of 1757. by J. Fenimore Cooper
release date: Jan 01, 2004
The Last of the Mohicans: James Fenimore Cooper (Historical) Illustrated
release date: Apr 11, 2021
release date: Sep 15, 2017
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