The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales)
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Publisher Description
Set during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the violence and rugged beauty of the American frontier. In the wilds of New York, where tensions rage between tribal Indians and white pioneers, a white hunter known as Deerslayer is initiated into the moral codes of wilderness society. When he and his loyal Mohican friend attempt the daring rescue of an Indian maiden, they are caught in the crossfire between a cunning enemy and two merciless white bounty hunters who kill for profit.
A fine combination of romance, adventure, and morality, this classic novel is an eloquent beginning for Cooper's great wilderness saga, the Leatherstocking Tales—and an unforgettable introduction to the famous character who has been said to embody the conscience of America: the noble woodsman Deerslayer.
Customer Reviews
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Iroquois vs. Mohicans vs. Palefaces. There’s an unexpected tale here that meanders to many unexpected places, but James Fenimore Cooper is a painful storyteller. In the days before typewriters, authors like Cooper wrote longhand sagas that were desperately redundant. One young woman is described as “feeble-minded,” then EVERY time she speaks a line or someone addresses her, we get reminded that she is “dim-witted,” “feeble-minded,” “simple-minded” again. Cooper writes of sex, sex, sex at least 100 times, never intending the verb for lovemaking, but simply replacing “gender.” And he continually pulls readers out of the narrative with cranky statements like “as we told you in the previous chapter.” It’s a frustrating read; I won’t be progressing to “The Last of the Mohicans.”