Oxford World's Classics: The Deerslayer - Softcover

Cooper, James Fenimore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192837257 ISBN 13: 9780192837257

Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks, 1999

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Book by Cooper James Fenimore

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Reseña del editor:

The Deerslayer (1841) is the last-written of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, but the first in the development of the hero, Natty Bumppo. Here, Cooper returns Leatherstocking to his youth and to a pristine wilderness that D. H. Lawrence said was perhaps `lovelier than any place created in language'. This novel, and the contemporaneous The Pathfinder, mark Cooper's return to historical romance after more than a decade given largely to social and political commentary. Written during the period of Cooper's bitter legal battles with the Whig press, The Deerslayer reflects a retreat from his difficulties into a world of romance; but the novel also symbolically attacks Cooper's opponents and implicitly provides a critique of nineteenth-century American society. In the Introduction H. Daniel Peck offers an explanation for The Deerslayer's mysterious power over twentieth-century readers, showing how the novel's patterns of adventurous action dramatize issues of possession and loss. This edition provides the authoritative text of the novel.

Reseña del editor:

The Deerslayer (1841) is the last of the Leatherstocking Tales, but the first in the development of the hero Natty Bumppo. This novel marks Cooper's return to historical romance after more than a decade given largely to social and political commentary. This edition provides the authoritative text of the novel and prefaces to The Deerslayer (1841 and 1850) and to the Leatherstocking Tales (1850).

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• Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192837257
• ISBN 13: 9780192837257
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 588
• Herausgeber: Peck H. Daniel