415 pages
English language
Published Nov. 10, 1841 by Baudry's European library.
The deerslayer
a tale Collection of ancient and modern British authors -- vol. 327
James Fenimore Cooper: The deerslayer (1841, Baudry's European library)
- OCLC Number:
- 63790214
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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.