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James Fenimore Cooper
Book List in Order: 51 titles
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The Last of the Mohicans
- 1826
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The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bu...
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The Deerslayer; or, The First Warpath
- 1841
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This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as "Deerslayer", a young frontiersman in early 18th-century New York. He is contrasted to other frontiersmen and settlers in the novel who have no compunctions in taking scalps in that his natural philosophy is that...
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The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
- Nov-2008
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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Satanstoe, or the Littlepage Manuscripts
- Mar-2009
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Every chronicle of manners has a certain value. When customs are connected with principles, in their origin, development, or end, such records have a double importance; and it is because we think we see such a connection between the facts and inciden...
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Shorter Fictions and Literary Essays
- Feb-2010
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This volume presents several literary pieces by Fenimore Cooper almost impossible to locate elsewhere in print, including two early novel reviews, the surviving fragment of his only play, and the only piece of fiction he wrote in French....
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The Chainbearer
- Jan-2012
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"This introduction to her father's novel was written by his daughter, Susan Fenimore Cooper: ""A few months after the publication of Satanstoe, appeared The Chainbearer, an autobiography like the first work, and purporting to be written by the son of...
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The Chronicles of Cooperstown
- Mar-2012
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"The love of particular places, such as the spots in which we were born, or have passed our lives, contributes to sustain all the affections, and to render us better citizens and better men," declares famed American author James Fenimore Cooper in hi...
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The Deerslayer
- Jul-2017
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A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called Deerslayer for the daring that sets him apart from his peers. But he has yet to meet the test of human conflict. In a tale of violent action and superbly sustained suspense, the harsh r...
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Afloat and Ashore; Or, the Adventures of Miles Wallingford
This sensational tale from action-adventure master James Fenimore Cooper takes the form of the life story of a rugged old sailor, Miles Wallingford. As a youth, Miles, his brother, and their slave Neb ran away from the family home to become seamen, d...
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Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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The Borderers
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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The Bravo
Eighteenth-century Venice is the setting for The Bravo, a sprawling sea novel that is equal parts travelogue, cultural analysis, political treatise, and adventure tale. While packed with plenty of the gripping action Cooper's novels are known for...
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The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak
Regarded by many as the first writer to develop a quintessentially American literary style, James Fenimore Cooper's work is always highly evocative of a particular time, place, and ethos. In The Crater, Fenimore Cooper introduces a supernatural eleme...
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England, with Sketches of Society in the Metropolis
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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Eve Effingham; Or, Home
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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The Headsman
Part of a trilogy of works by the author of The Last of the Mohicans, The Headsman is regarded by many critics to be one of James Fenimore Cooper's most accomplished novels. With the action of the novel divided between the Swiss Alps and a series...
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The Heidenmauer, Or the Benedictines
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
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Home as Found
The sequel to his earlier novel, Homeward Bound, James Fenimore Cooper's Home as Found was inspired by events in the author's own life. After living abroad for a number of years, Cooper and his family returned to the U.S., only to be appalled...
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Homeward Bound
This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic reade...
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Jack Tier; Or, the Florida Reef
"This tale of the sea was written in 1847-48, and during the same year J. Fenimore Cooper was still occupied with the Naval Biographies, and also with The Crater. It was very seldom that he was actually engaged in writing two novels at the same time,...
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The Lake Gun, and New York
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is particularly remembered as a novelist, who wrote numerous sea-stories as well as the historical romances known as the Leatherstocking Tales,...
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Lost Sealers
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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Mercedes of Castile
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Miles Wallingford
Filled with James Fenimore Cooper’s singular, memorable characters, and set in upstate New York and on the high seas, Miles Wallingford continues his nautical adventures with the crusty Moses Marble. As the sequel to Afloat and Ashore (1844), this ...
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Ned Myers; or a Life before the Mast
Engrossing biography of Ned Myers, a sailor and Cooperís companion at sea. The authentic details shed light not only on Myerís life but also on the political, economic and social scenario of that time. This nautical novel also satisfies the reader ...
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New York
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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Old Ironsides
"IN the course of the events connected with the naval history and the naval glory of the country, this ship has become so renowned by her services and her success as to be entitled to have her biography written, as well as those who have gained di...
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The Pathfinder, or the Inland Sea
In 1831, James Fenimore Cooper told his publisher that he wanted to write a story set on Lake Ontario. The book was accepted, but with no hint that it would feature Natty Bumppo from the well-established Leather-Stocking Tales. The Pathfinder (1840) ...
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The Pilot
The hero of THE PILOT -- modeled on John Paul Jones -- leads the American Navy in dangerous raids on the English coast. James Fenimore Cooper's fourth novel, published in 1823, helped start the genre of sea novels. Cooper's other major works include ...
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The Pioneers
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.As this work professes, in its title-page, to be a descriptive tale, they who will take the trouble to read it may be glad to know how much of its contents is literal fact, and how much is intended to repres...
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The Prairie
James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie. Are you looking for one of the best books of all time to read? Then you've come to the right spot! The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper is one of the best works of all time. Don’t miss out on this great classic ...
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Precaution
Some of our greatest novelists have launched their careers by what seems the least likely means -- that of the wager.
In American letters there is no stronger example than that to be found in the life of James Fenimore Cooper -- who made the...
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Recollections of Europe
Just after he published the work now considered his masterpiece, the epic 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans, the popular American writer JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) decamped for Europe, where he would live and travel for several years. Here, ...
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The Red Rover
Get set for an exhilarating nautical adventure that pits one of the world's most notorious pirates against a ragtag crew of black and white sailors who must overcome their differences and band together for the fight. Although The Red Rover shares...
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The Redskins: or, Indian and Injin
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
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A Residence in France
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is particularly remembered as a novelist, who wrote numerous sea-stories as well as the historical romances known as the Leatherstocking Tales,...
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The Sea Lions
If any thing connected with the hardness of the human heart could surprise us, it surely would be the indifference with which men live on, engrossed by their worldly objects, amid the sublime natural phenomena that so eloquently and unceasingly speak...
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The Spy, A Tale of the Neutral Ground
Cooper's first major success, The Spy is also his first book set in the period of the American War of Independence. The story starts in 1780, with the household of Mr. Wharton and his daughters visited by the three men: the mysterious Mr. Harper,...
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Tales for Fifteen; or, Imagination and Heart
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is particularly remembered as a novelist, who wrote numerous sea-stories as well as the historical romances known as the Leatherstocking Tales,...
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The Travelling Bachelor; Or, Notions Of The Americans
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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The Two Admirals
A fantastic historical novel set during the events of the Scottish uprising, written by the author of The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper....
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The Ways of the Hour
Published in 1850, this was Cooper's final novel -- and America's first courtroom drama. When innocent Mary Monson is accused of murder, she refuses to clear her name, insisting on a jury trial. Cooper, who opposed the trial-by-jury syste...
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The Wing-And-Wing: Or, Le Feu-Follet
Get set for hijinks on the high seas in this rip-roaring action-adventure tale from American author James Fenimore Cooper. French privateer Raoul Yvard puts his own life at stake in a daring attempt to rescue the father of his beloved, whose executio...
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Cooper: Sea Tales
In The Pilot (1824) and The Red Rover (1828), James Fenimore Cooper invented a new literary genre: the sea novel. Collected here in a single Library of America volume, they are among his finest works. Bold, vigorous, original, each is a tale of h...
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The Leatherstocking Tales
The five novels in The Leatherstocking Tales (collected in two Library of America volumes), Cooper's great saga of the American wilderness, form a pageant of the American frontier. Cooper's hero, Natty Bumppo, is forced ever farther into the heart...
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Lionel Lincoln: Or, the Leaguer of Boston
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
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The Monikins
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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The Oak-Openings; Or, The Bee-Hunter
A fantastic historical adventure novel set during the War of 1812, written by the author of 'The Last of the Mohicans', James Fenimore Cooper....
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The Water Witch: or, The Skimmer of the Seas
A fantastic classical novel of James Fenimore about the ignorance, ferocity and crimes of middle ages. The readers will find the true depiction of middle ages. Truly captivating!...
