The Pathfinder Or the Inland Sea

by Cooper, James Fenimore; Kelly, William P.

• ISBN13: 9780192839893
• ISBN10: 0192839896
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Pathfinder (1840), Cooper's most picturesque novel and the fourth of the five Leatherstocking Tales, is a naval story set on the Great Lakes of the 1750s. Fashioned from Cooper's own experience as a midshipman on Lake Ontario in 1808-09, the novel revives Natty Bumpo (who had died in The Prairie), and illuminates Cooper's interest in American history with his concern for social development.

Table of Contents

Edited with an Historical Introduction

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Historical Introduction

Preface [1840]

Preface [1851]

The Pathfinder

Textual Commentary

Note on the Manuscript

Textual Notes

Emendations

Rejected Readings

Word-Division

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