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Availability:In StockContributor:James Fenimore Cooper, Donald A. Ringe (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1988-06-06Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140390070ISBN-10:140390073UPC:9780140390070Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, IndigenousSize:7.73 x 5.06 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCHB4C4FEC
The Pioneers
In this classic novel, James Fenimore Cooper portrays life in a new settlement on New York's Lake Otsego in the closing years of the eighteenth century. He describes the year's cycle: the turkey shoot at Christmas, the tapping of maple trees, fishing for bass in the evening, the marshalling of the militia. But Cooper is also concerned with exploring the development of the cultural and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140390070ISBN-10:140390073UPC:9780140390070Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, IndigenousSize:7.73 x 5.06 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCHB4C4FEC
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) grew up at Otsego Hall, his father's manorial estate near Lake Otsego in upstate New York. Educated at Yale, he spent five years at sea, as a foremast hand and then as a midshipman in the navy. At thirty he was suddenly plunged into a literary career when his wife challenged his claim that he could write a better book that the English novel he was reading to her....
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