The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume I: The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale; The Last of the Mohicans, A Narrative of 1757; The Prairie, A Tale
Cooper, James Fenimore; Blake Nevius (editor) wrote the notes & selected the texts for this volume
Language: English
Published by Library of America, New York, 1985
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- The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume I: The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale; The Last of the Mohicans, A Narrative of 1757; The Prairie, A Tale
- Author
- Cooper, James Fenimore; Blake Nevius (editor) wrote the notes & selected the texts for this volume
- Publisher
- Library of America, New York
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0940450208
- ISBN 13
- 9780940450202
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 4th Printing
- Item weight
- 0.88 kilograms
Leatherstocking first appears in The Pioneers (1823), as an aged hunter living on the fringe of settlement near Templeton (Cooperstown), New York, at the end of the eighteenth century. There he becomes caught in the struggles of party, family, and class to control the changing American land and to determine what sort of civilization will replace the rapidly vanishing wilderness. When Natty Bumppo started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset at the novel''s close, one early reader said, "I longed to go with him."
The Last of the Mohicans (1826) is a pure unabashed narrative of adventure. It looks back to the earlier time of the French and Indian Wars, when Natty and his two companions, Chingachgook and Uncas, survivors of a once-proud Indian nation, attempt a daring rescue and seek to forestall the plan of the French to unleash their Mingo allies on a wave of terror through the English settlements.
The Prairie (1827) takes up Natty in his eighties, driven by the continuous march of civilization to his last refuge on the Great Plains across the Mississippi. On this vast and barren stage, the Sioux and Pawnee, the outlaw clan of Ishmael Bush, and members of the Lewis and Clark expedition enact a romantic drama of intrigue, pursuit, and biblical justice that reflects Cooper''s historical dialectic of culture and nature, of the American nation and the American continent.
LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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