The Deerslayer or the First Warpath (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780873957908)

Written during a nostalgic interval during Cooper's stormy battles with the Whig Press, The Deerslayer (1841) is the last of the world-famous Leatherstocking Tales in point of composition, though first in the biographical sequence. Employing physical adventure and violence in a mythopoetic setting drawn largely from his own youthful experience, Cooper evokes the stages of Natty's initiation as a subtly allegorical medium for instilling permanent values, values he thought should pervade the conduct of the American press and all segments of American society. According to Edmund Wilson, this book--which D. H. Lawrence called "the loveliest and best" of the Leatherstocking series--contains description which "owes its power, like Melville's description of the Pacific or one of Poe's pieces on landscape gardening, to an emotional content which has charged the object and transformed it into a symbol. And the action has a reality which we recognize and accept as we read: the reality of a dream full of danger." -- The Shock of Recognition

Author: James Fenimore Cooper
ISBN-10: 0873957903
ISBN-13: 9780873957908
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/1987
Pages: 682
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.18lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.01w x 1.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 11.2
Point Value: 44
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 16710 / Deerslayer