The Deerslayer (Barnes & Noble Classics) - James Fenimore Cooper [0]
FROM THE PAGES OF THE DEERSLAYER
Title Page
Copyright Page
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
THE WORLD OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER AND THE DEERSLAYER
Introduction
Epigraph
PREFACE TO THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES [1850]
PREFACE TO THE DEERSLAYER [1850]
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
ENDNOTES
APPENDIX - Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses
COMMENTS & QUESTIONS
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FROM THE PAGES OF THE DEERSLAYER
On all sides, wherever the eye turned, nothing met it but the mirrorlike surface of the lake, the placid view of heaven, and the dense setting of woods. So rich and fleecy were the outlines of the forest, that scarce an opening could be seen, the whole visible earth, from the rounded mountaintop to the water’s edge, presenting one unvaried hue of unbroken verdure.
(page 29)
“They call me Deerslayer, I’ll own; and perhaps I desarve the name, in the way of understanding the creatur’s habits, as well as for sartainty in the aim; but they can’t accuse me of killing an animal when there is no occasion for the meat or the skin. I may be a slayer, it’s true, but I’m no slaughterer.”
(page 49)
Deerslayer—or Hawkeye, as the youth was then first named, for in after years he bore the appellation throughout all that region—Deerslayer took the hand of the savage, whose last breath was drawn in that attitude, gazing in admiration at the countenance of a stranger, who had shown so much readiness, skill, and firmness.
(page 112)
“Natur’ will have its way”
(page 149)
In a bark canoe, they were totally without cover, and Indian discretion was entirely opposed to such a sacrifice of life as would most probably follow any attempt to assault an enemy, entrenched as effectually as the Delaware. Instead of following the ark, therefore, these three warriors inclined towards the eastern shore, keeping at a safe distance from the rifles of Chingachgook.
(page 3 3 0)
“Ought the young to wive with the old—the paleface with the redskin—the Christian with the heathen? It’s ag‘in reason and natur’.”
(page 464)
James Fenimore Cooper
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The Deerslayer was first published in 1841.
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The Deerslayer
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JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
James Fenimore Cooper was born September