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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.2 EAN: 9780140390261 ISBN: 014039026X Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: November 06, 1987 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Related Items:
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 Rating:  - The Prairie'The Prairie' is the third of Cooper's Leatherstocking tales in order of publication and the final in chronological order. It is also the last of the original three books ('The Pathfinder' and 'The Deerslayer' were written much later). Here Leatherstocking - now referred to as the Trapper - is in his late eighties and yet still possesses some of the vitality of a hardened wilderness man. The book seamlessly segues from 'The Pioneers' even though ten years have elapsed. Disenchanted ... Read More Rating:  - The vast, idealistic prairie of Cooper's imagination"The Prairie" piles a far-fetched mystery atop an implausible plotline, but there's something endearing about its sheer disregard for authenticity. The ultimate success of this installment of Cooper's Leatherstocking series is not in its realism--which is in short supply here--but in its comedy (often calculated but sometimes unintentional) and its social commentary. Natty Bumppo appears again simply as "the trapper"; it's near the end of his life, and he has escaped his former residence ... Read More Rating:  - Anonymous NattyJames Fenimore Cooper's 1827 novel "The Prairie" is an epic adventure featuring two major plots, twelve major characters, and a cast of thousands. Set in the Great Plains shortly after the Louisiana Purchase (the Lewis and Clark expedition is mentioned en passant), "The Prairie" sets two Indian tribes, the Sioux and the Pawnee, against each other as well as two disparate groups of white travelers. Even though Cooper had reservations regarding Sir Walter Scott that writer's influence on Cooper cannot be ... Read More Rating: - Book Three of the Leatherstocking: Natty called home.....Third in the Leatherstocking Tales series, The Prairie finds Nathaniel Bumppo beyond the Mississippi as the encroachment of civilization pushes him further and further afield. There are five books to the Leatherstocking Tales. Cooper did not write them in chronological order. Accordingly, The Prairie relates the close of Bumppo's career among the Pawnee and Sioux of the Great Plains. As with The Pioneers, The Prairie starts slow and takes time to develop. Additional concessions must be made for ... Read More Rating: - a nice surpriseI chose to read this series in chronological order and not the order in which they were written. This being the third to be written but last in order, I read this one last. I must say that I was surprised at how enjoyable a read it was seeing that the last two I read (The Pathfinder and The Pioneers) were pretty disappointing. This novel has excellent descriptions of the prairie setting and the characters involved without weighing the reader down with page upon page of needless descriptions or rhetoric. ... Read More 
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