The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path (Modern Library Classics)

Cooper, James Fenimore

ISBN 10: 0375760873 / ISBN 13: 9780375760877

Published by Modern Library, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path (Modern Library Classics)
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375760873
• ISBN 13: 9780375760877
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Set during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the essence of both the murderous humanity and the natural beauty that distinguished America’s founding. The last of Cooper’s famous Leatherstocking Tales, it is first chronologically in the frontier adventures of the backwoods scout Natty Bumppo. Amid a terrain largely inspired by Cooper’s own boyhood, Natty’s initiation in the moral codes of wilderness society is examined in what is, according to D. H. Lawrence, “the loveliest and best” of the Leatherstocking series.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive text established by James Franklin Beard and James P. Elliott, which is the Approved Text of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.

About the Author

Leslie A. Fiedler is Distinguished Professor and holds the Samuel L. Clemens Chair in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo.