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Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
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Title: Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offences
Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Release Date: September 16, 2004 [EBook #3172]
Language: English
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FENIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENCES
by Mark Twain
The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer stand at the head of Cooper's novels as artistic creations. There are others of his works which contain parts as perfect as are to be found in these, and scenes even more thrilling. Not one can be compared with either of them as a finished whole.
The defects in both of these tales are comparatively slight. They were pure works of art.--Prof. Lounsbury.
The five tales reveal an extraordinary fulness of invention. . . . One of the very greatest characters in fiction, Natty Bumppo . . . .
The craft of the woodsman, the tricks of the trapper, all the delicate art of the forest, were familiar to Cooper from his youth up.--Prof. Brander Matthews.
Cooper is the greatest artist in the domain of romantic fiction yet produced by America.--Wilkie Co