James Fenimore Cooper
A biographical-critical work, which takes all of Cooper's writing into account (novels, romances, histories, social commentaries and essays), beginning with an overview of the crowded events of his career and in successive chapters tracing the writer's development and his influence on his young contemporaries, Melville and Hawthorne. Long explains to a great degree how "without him, the American novel would have no foundation."
collective biographies
213 pages ; 22 cm.
9780826404312, 0826404316
20296972
"A Frederick Ungar book."