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The Deerslayer
The Deerslayer
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
The plot of "The Deerslayer" is characterized by exciting and suspenseful incidents that stir the reader's anticipation, apprehension, and sympathy. Tom Hutter and Hurry Harry's imprudent search for scalps necessitates their rescue from the hostile Hurons, a rescue that constitutes nearly the first half of the plot. Chingachgook and Deerslayer...  more »
ISBN: 43404
Pages: 412
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Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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hardtack avatar reviewed The Deerslayer on + 2846 more book reviews
Over 60 years ago, I enjoyed this book when I read it for a high school class and read the rest of the series on my own.

Still, I enjoyed Mark Twain's critique on Cooper's work and laughed all the way through.

Read it yourself at

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3172/3172-h/3172-h.htm
reviewed The Deerslayer on
Hundreds of pages too long. This as well as his other Leatherstocking tales could get the point across in half the text.
Way too much description, and characters' dialogue too long-winded saying basically the same points over and over again.
pinkcypress avatar reviewed The Deerslayer on + 86 more book reviews
"This book is the last of the Leatherstocking books, though first in the chronology of the hero's life. The Deerslayer is Cooper's masterpiece."
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Not bad but not good either.


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