Cooper's Novels: The water-witch: or, the skimmer of the seas
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 480
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Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 480
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Published: 1834
Total Pages: 452
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Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: 1871
Total Pages: 512
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 183
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2021-09-01
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 1438485239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChiefly set on the waters and islands of New York Harbor in the early years of the 1700s, James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Water-Witch (1830) paints a vivid picture of life in the little colonial port. It was familiar territory for Cooper, who a century later had served as a junior officer on board an eighteen-gun sloop-of-war stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That experience acquainted him with the navigational intricacies and dangers with which his characters must deal as they carry out the central action of the novel, the repeated attempts by a British naval cruiser to capture the brigantine commanded by a notorious smuggler known as the Skimmer of the Seas. As in all of Cooper's nautical novels, the scenes of ship-handling and naval combat in The Water-Witch are rendered with absolute authenticity, but here he envelops them in a cloud of mystery and magic that is dispersed only in the chaotic climax of the book. This scholarly edition includes an informative historical introduction and thorough explanatory notes. It also serves as an example of the processes by which an authoritative text is established. The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper The distinguished Cooper scholar James Franklin Beard (1919–1989) began organizing the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper in the late 1960s, as his work on publishing the monumental Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper came to fulfillment. Beard's intention was to provide readers with sound scholarly editions of Cooper's major works, based wherever possible on authorial manuscripts. To date, the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper has made available texts of many of Cooper's best-known novels, as well as some of his most important works of political and social commentary.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-12
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781356466054
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 480
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 520
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 0
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 464
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