The DeerslayerSet during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the essence of both the murderous humanity and the natural beauty that distinguished America’s founding. The last of Cooper’s famous Leatherstocking Tales, it is first chronologically in the frontier adventures of the backwoods scout Natty Bumppo. Amid a terrain largely inspired by Cooper’s own boyhood, Natty’s initiation in the moral codes of wilderness society is examined in what is, according to D. H. Lawrence, “the loveliest and best” of the Leatherstocking series. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive text established by James Franklin Beard and James P. Elliott, which is the Approved Text of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association. |
Contents
Section 19 | 377 |
Section 20 | 401 |
Section 21 | 422 |
Section 22 | 445 |
Section 23 | 462 |
Section 24 | 486 |
Section 25 | 512 |
Section 26 | 536 |
Section 9 | 162 |
Section 10 | 185 |
Section 11 | 207 |
Section 12 | 228 |
Section 13 | 252 |
Section 14 | 274 |
Section 15 | 295 |
Section 16 | 317 |
Section 17 | 339 |
Section 18 | 362 |
Section 27 | 558 |
Section 28 | 581 |
Section 29 | 598 |
Section 30 | 613 |
Section 31 | 631 |
Section 32 | 647 |
Section 33 | 663 |
Section 34 | 667 |
Common terms and phrases
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