James Fenimore Cooper: The Later Years
by Franklin, Wayne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0300135718
- ISBN 13
- 9780300135718
- Seller
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About This Item
New Haven: Yale University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. 0300135718 . Ex-library copy with very few library defects, no edge stamps, no marks on the jacket, small ink stamps on front and rear end-papers, "alarm" sticker inside back cover, two tiny inked annotations, one on copyright page, the other opposite on first page of "contents", that's it. ; Illus. , jacket now in a clear protector; 805 pages .
Synopsis
"Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reviews
On Aug 15 2009, Feeney said:
Pioneering American novelist James Fenimore Cooper lived from 1789 until 1851. In THE EARLY YEARS, Professor Wayne Franklin ends his biography when 36 year old Cooper boards a ship in 1826 to travel for the better part of a decade in Europe with his wife and five children. By 1826 James Cooper's best known novel THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS was in print. These and earlier works started his reputation at home and abroad. ***
Author Franklin roots his narrative in documents, some not available until the 1990s. But he is not afraid to speculate. If, for instance, he knows that Cooper was in one city at the beginning of his honeymoon and knows when he arrives at Cooperstown but not by what overland route, he will guess and then use his guess as a starting point for describing landscapes more familiar to Cooper's bride Susan than to James himself. ***
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER: THE EARLY YEARS is filled with often fascinating excursuses into the lives and times of seemingly every relative, schoolmate, naval officer colleague and acquaintance James Cooper (he added Fenimore later) ever had. Thus we see the impact that President Thomas Jefferson's embargo on trade with Britain had on the economy of New York State. We investigate the tenacious hold of dueling on officers of the young American navy. We learn how chance meetings with Indians or time spent in still Dutch-feeling Albany furnish materials for novels and Cooper's pioneering history of the U. S. Navy. ***
The book has helpful contemporary black and white illustrations, lavish notes and an excellent bibliography. Wanting are maps of colonial and early American New York. All in all a book indispensable to lovers of James Fenimore Cooper and early American history. -OOO-
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Details
- Seller
- Old Army Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 40195
- Title
- James Fenimore Cooper: The Later Years
- Author
- Franklin, Wayne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300135718
- ISBN 13
- 9780300135718
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- 0300135718
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