James Fenimore Cooper

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James Fenimore Cooper


Born
in Burlington, New Jersey, The United States
September 15, 1789

Died
September 14, 1851

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James Fenimore Cooper was a popular and prolific American writer. He is best known for his historical novel The Last of the Mohicans, one of the Leatherstocking Tales stories, and he also wrote political fiction, maritime fiction, travelogues, and essays on the American politics of the time. His daughter Susan Fenimore Cooper was also a writer.

Series:
* The Leatherstocking Tales
* The Littlepage Manuscripts
* Afloat and Ashore
* Homeward Bound
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Average rating: 3.7 · 136,246 ratings · 5,557 reviews · 4,212 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Last of the Mohicans (T...

3.70 avg rating — 102,979 ratings — published 1826 — 896 editions
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The Deerslayer (The Leather...

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The Pathfinder (The Leather...

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The Pioneers (Leatherstocki...

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The Prairie (Leatherstockin...

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The Spy

3.61 avg rating — 1,483 ratings — published 1821 — 778 editions
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The Leatherstocking Tales

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The Red Rover

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The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea

3.54 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1824 — 11 editions
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“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.”
James Fenimore Cooper

“Then as to churches, they are good, I suppose, else wouldn't good men uphold' em. But they are not altogether necessary. They call 'em the temples of the Lord; but, Judith, the whole 'arth is a temple of the Lord to such as have the right mind. Neither forts nor churches make people happier of themselves. Moreover, all is contradiction in the settlements, while all is concord in the woods. Forts and churches almost always go together, and yet they're downright contradictions; churches being for peace, and forts for war. No, no--give me the strong places of the wilderness, which is the trees, and the churches, too, which are arbors raised by the hand of nature.”
James Fenimore Cooper

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