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1) The prairie
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Leatherstocking tales volume 5
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English
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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.
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English
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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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English
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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.
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Publisher
Barnes and Noble
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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The pioneers: This first Leatherstocking tale takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York States and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, and Elizabeth Temple of Cooperstown. The story begins with an argument between the Judge and Leatherstocking over who killed a buck, and reviews many of the changes to New York's Lake Otsego, questions of environmental stewardship, conservation,...
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