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The Deerslayer

The Deerslayer

Cooper, James Fenimore

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1481233513
ISBN13: 9781481233514
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 12 2012
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The Deerslayer, depicts young Natty Bumppo on his first warpath with lifelong friend-to-be, Chingachgook. The story centers around a lake used as the chronologically subsequent setting for Cooper's first Leatherstocking Tale, The Pioneers. Tom Hutter lives on the lake with his daughters and it is here that Deerslayer (Bumppo) intends to meet Chingachgook to rescue Chingachgook's betrothed from a band of roving Iroquois. A desperate battle for control of the lake and it's immediate environs ensues and consumes the remainder of the story. Throughout this ultimate Leatherstocking Tale, Cooper provides Natty much to postulate upon. Seemingly desiring a comprehensive finality to the philosophy of Bumppo, Cooper has Natty speechify in The Deerslayer more so than in any other book, though the character could hardly be considered laconic in any. Though the reason for this is obvious and expected (it is, after all, Cooper's last book of the series), it still detracts a tad from the pace of the story as Natty picks some highly inappropriate moments within the plot to elaborate his position. And, thus, somewhat incongruently, Cooper is forced to award accumulated wisdom to Bummpo at the beginning of his career rather than have him achieve it through chronological accrual. Set in upstate New York in the 1740s, The Deerslayer provides the reader with an idolized introduction to the society of white and red of this colonial frontier.

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