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The Deerslayer is the last book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, but acts as a prequel to the other novels. It begins with the rapid civilizing of New York, in which surrounds the following books take place. It introduces the hero of the Tales, Natty Bumppo, and his philosophy that every living thing should follow its own nature. He is contrasted to other, less conscientious, frontiersmen.
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- Author
- James Fenimore Cooper
- First published
- 1841
- Pages
- 520
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com, Acclaim Classics & Young Readers, Ensslin und Laiblin
- Editions
- 504
- Language
- German, French, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9798608292187
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“To the People of the State of New York: AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.”
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel [*The Last of the Mohicans*][1], often regarded as his masterpiece. ([Source][2]) [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL77958W/The_last_of_the_Mohicans [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fenimore_Cooper
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