The James Fenimore Cooper Page

( 1789-1851 )
Three Early Works
The Spy ( 1821 ).
The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish( 1829 ).
The Water Witch( 1830 ).

The Leatherstocking Tales
The "Leatherstocking Tales" are available in Penguin editions, Oxford World's Classics, and The Library of America ( 2 Vols.).
The Deerslayer ( 1841 ).
The Last of the Mohicans. ( 1826 ). On Line from Bibliomania.
The Pathfinder ( 1840 ).
The Pioneers ( 1823 ).
The Prairie ( 1827 ).

Two Novels of the Sea. Available in the Library of America.
The Pilot ( 1824 ).
The Red Rover ( 1827 ).

Other Novels
The Wyandotté ( 1843 )
Satanstoe ( 1845 ).
Redskins ( 1846 ).
The Crater ( 1847 ).
The Sea Lions ( 1849 ).

About Cooper
Donald A. Ringe, James Fenimore Cooper. Twayne, 1962.
Warren S. Walker, James Fenimore Cooper: An Introduction and Interpretation. Barnes and Noble, 1962.
James Fenimore Cooper Society Cooperstown, N.Y.
A Cooper Page from D. Campbell.
James Fenimore Cooper,1789-1851 from Mark Canada.
Romancing the Indian. from Adriana Rissetto.
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" Mark Twain's famous--and hilarious--essay on Cooper. Twain shows only, however, that Cooper is not a realist.

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