Leatherstocking tales
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The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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In the Pathfinder, Cooper undertook the "hazardous experiment" of resurrecting one of his most popular characters, for he had killed off Bumppo in his previous incarnation, the Trapper, in The Prairie (1827). But in 1839, at his English publisher's instigation, Cooper began work on a "romance," setting the story of his hero's unsuccessful courtship on the mist-shrouded shores of Lake Ontario during the French and Indian Wars.
4) The Pioneers
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Leatherstocking tales volume 4
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Set in 1793 and 1794, The Pioneers tracks the changes of a small town called Templeton, built on the advancing frontier of New York. Natty Bumppo, a hero raised by Native Americans, lives in a cabin, secluded in a forest near Templeton. As the Christmas Eve snow falls, Natty, more commonly known as Leatherstocking, embarks on a tense hunt for a deer. As he tracks the deer down, he runs into Judge Marmaduke Temple, the man who founded the town of Temple....
5) The prairie
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Leatherstocking tales volume 5
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Natty Bumppo, the mythic hero of Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales," is now at the end of his life. Displaying both strength and dignity, he averts and Indian raid, saving a train of immigrants crossing the plains of the Western frontier. The final novel in Cooper's epic, The Prairie endures as a beautiful reflection of the profound aspirations and disappointments of America's nineteenth-century expansionist movement.