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The deerslayer, or, The first war-path by Cooper, James Fenimore; Beard, James Franklin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

Who reads The deerslayer, or, The first war-path?

Author

Cooper, James Fenimore; Beard, James Franklin

Publisher

State University Of New York Press

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791499771

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (254 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14