| The Deerslayer or the First Warpath Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cooper, James Fenimore (Author), Schachterle, Lance (Notes by) |
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ISBN: 0873953614 ISBN-13: 9780873953610 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 813.2 |
| LCCN: 87009928 |
| Lexile Measure: 1340 |
| Series: Writings of James Fenimore Cooper |
| Physical Information: 1.73" H x 6.26" W x 9.25" (2.54 lbs) 682 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 16710 Reading Level: 11.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 44.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |