The Leatherstocking Tales, Vol. 2: The Pathfinder / The

The Leatherstocking Tales, Vol. 2: The Pathfinder / The Deerslayer

When Cooper's most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset inÂ The Pioneers, one early reader said of his departure, "I longed to go with him."Â

American readers couldn't get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected inÂ two Library of America volumes) and, fourteen years after he portrayed the death of Natty Bumppo inÂ The Prairie, Cooper brought him back inÂ The Pathfinder, orÂ The Inland SeaÂ (1841). During the Seven Years War, just after the events narrated inÂ The Last of the Mohicans, Natty brings the daughter of a British sergeant to her father's station on the Great Lakes, where the French and their Indian allies are plotting a treacherous ambush. Here, for the first time, he falls in love with a woman, before Cooper manages bring off Leatherstocking's most poignant, and perhaps his most revealing, escape.

The DeerslayerÂ (1842) brings the saga full circle and follows the young Natty on his first warpath. Instinctively gifted in the arts of the forest, pious in his respect for the unspoiled wilderness on which he loves to gaze, honorable to friend and foe alike, stoic under torture, and cool under fire, the young Leatherstocking emerges as Cooper's noblest figure of the American frontier. Enacting a rite of passage both for its hero and for the culture he comes to represent, this last book in the series glows with a timelessness that readers everywhere will find enchanting.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAÂ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nationâ€™s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americaâ€™s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780940450219
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1985-07-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780940450219

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780940450219
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1985-07-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780940450219

The Leatherstocking Tales, Vol. 2: The Pathfinder / The Deerslayer

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