Paperback, 464 pages
English language
Published Oct. 19, 2007 by Dover Publications.
The Deerslayer (Thrift Edition)
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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.
Subjects
- Classics
- Fiction / Classics
- Fiction
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Bumppo, Natty (Fictitious character)
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Scouting (Reconnaissance)
- Literature: Classics