James Fenimore Cooper
Born
in Burlington, New Jersey, The United States
September 15, 1789
Died
September 14, 1851
Genre
Influences
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The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
566 editions
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1826
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The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)
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5 editions
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1841
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The Pathfinder (The Leatherstocking Tales, #3)
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1563 editions
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1840
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The Pioneers (Leatherstocking Tales, #4)
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1823
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The Prairie (Leatherstocking Tales, #5)
1199 editions
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1827
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The Spy
726 editions
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published
1821
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The Leatherstocking Tales
134 editions
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published
1823
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James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume One
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29 editions
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1826
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The Red Rover
303 editions
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published
1827
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The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea
383 editions
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1824
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“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― The Last of the Mohicans
― 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.”
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“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.”
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Polls
March 2017 Old School Classic Poll
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1478, 504 pages
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 1862, 244 pages
Utopia by Thomas More, 1516, 135 pages
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, 1826, 410 pages
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, 1782, 448 pages
The Arabian Nights by Anonymous, 800, 1049 pages
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 1842, 464 pages
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1848, 437 pages
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, 1895, 310 pages
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, 1861, 176 pages
The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 1830, 608 pages
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, 1899, 562 pages
A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper, 1892, 368 pages
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