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The Pathfinder / James Fenimore Cooper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, James Fenimore, Author.
- Series:
- John Harvard library.
- The John Harvard Library ; 139
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)--Fiction.
- Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.).
- United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Fiction.
- United States.
- Bumppo, Natty (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Bumppo, Natty.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (597 p.)
- Edition:
- Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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) revisits Natty’s military service, extending a story begun in The Last of the Mohicans, and introduces the complications of love against the backdrop of the French and Indian War. Wayne Franklin’s introduction describes the personal and financial circumstances that led to Cooper’s resurrection of his most popular character, underscoring the author’s aim to offer Natty as a “Pathfinder” for a nation he feared had lost its moral bearings. The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the text of The Pathfinder from The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper (State University of New York Press). Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Chronology of James Fenimore Cooper’s Life
- Preface [First Edition]
- Preface [Author’s Revised Edition, 1851]
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII
- Chapter XXVIII
- Chapter XXIX
- Chapter XXX
- Selected Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-73632-X
- 0-674-96752-6
- OCLC:
- 900606209
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