What James Fenimore Cooper has to tell us about our ... Cooper divides his book into 46 little ... I made this point earlier, or had Cooper make it, but it is worth remaking. More ...

James Fenimore Cooper is an old-fashioned author, his work the dense, compulsory stuff of mid-level literature-survey courses. Surely, his life and career could have no bearing on our era.

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The Father of Us All James Fenimore Cooper, once the most familiar of American writers, has by now become very nearly the strangest. He is ...

W hen James Fenimore Cooper died on Sepember 14, 1851, a day before his 62nd birthday, friends and admirers planned a gala to celebrate the life and career of America’s first great novelist. The ...

Only one restaurateur exploited the building’s history by naming his establishment after Cooper. A 1963 newspaper ad invited diners to enjoy a full-course Easter dinner for $4.25 at the “old homestead ...

This volume, the first installment of a projected two-volume study of James Fenimore Cooper, covers Cooper’s life from his birth in 1789 to his departure with his family in 1826 for an extended ...

New lab at Mamaroneck HS likely to displace murals honoring James Fenimore Cooper The murals were installed and dedicated at the school 80 years ago on Sept. 15, 1941 — Cooper’s birthday.

Edited by his grandson, James Fenimore Cooper. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1922. Two volumes. 8vo. 776 pp. Regular edition with frontispieces $7.50. Limited edition, with extra illustrations ...