Autobiography of a pocket handkerchief / James Fenimore Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851

Series:

Esprios world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Handkerchiefs--Fiction.

Handkerchiefs.

Genre:

Fables.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

145 pages ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

Chambersburg, PA : Lightning Source LLC, 2021.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Esprios Digital Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

"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, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, which many people consider his masterpiece. Other works include Precaution (1820), The Spy (1821), The Pioneers (1823), The Red Rover (1828), The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (1829), The Notions of a Traveling Bachelor (1828), The Waterwitch (1830), The Bravo (1831), The Monikins (1835), The American Democrat (1835) and Homeward Bound (1839)"-- Provided by publisher.

Set in Paris and New York in the 1830s, this story is narrated by a pocket handkerchief, an article which at that time was used more for show than for blow. It is, thus, distinguished for its beauty rather than for the function of ordinary handkerchiefs. It begins its autobiography by establishing its ancestry back through several generations of flax plants, starting in America and then moving to France when a large shipment of flaxseed was captured by a French privateer. Every flax plant and its linen offspring enjoy a special kind of clairvoyance which unites their perceptions with those of both their vegetable ancestors and their human associates. For this reason all pieces of linen are wiser and better informed than is generally supposed, and the observations of a sophisticated pocket handkerchief provide a most fitting vehicle for the broad social satire of the story.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

1006431195

9781006431197

OCLC:

1277274176