Project Gutenberg 2004-08-10 Public domain in the USA. 124 Phillips, Mary Elizabeth 1857 1945 Phillips, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) James Fenimore Cooper Reading ease score: 70.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by The Million Book Project and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "James Fenimore Cooper" by Mary Elizabeth Phillips is a biographical account written in the early 20th century. The text focuses on the life of the prominent American author James Fenimore Cooper, detailing his upbringing, familial influences, and the environment that shaped his career in literature. Through a personal lens, the book seeks to explore Cooper not just as an acclaimed writer of romantic fiction but as a man whose experiences are intertwined with the history of America and its landscapes. The opening of the biography establishes the context of Cooper's life by introducing his family background and the historical setting of his early years. It describes his birth in Burlington, New Jersey, and explains how his father's migration to Cooperstown, instigated by financial troubles, laid the groundwork for Cooper's creation of iconic characters like Leatherstocking. The narrative highlights the formative experiences of Cooper's youth, including the rich natural surroundings of Otsego, the influence of Native American culture, and his family's deep roots in the local community. This foundational period is portrayed with an emphasis on the events and people who shaped him, intertwining personal anecdotes with larger historical themes, setting the stage for Cooper’s future literary contributions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Biography PS Text Browsing: Biographies Browsing: History - American Browsing: Literature 469901 454298 2024-10-06T06:30:54.004397 2023-10-06T08:01:34.239106 text/html text/html 427590 2020-12-18T00:54:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1728952 2020-12-18T00:54:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1761375 2024-10-06T06:31:14.918602 application/epub+zip 1771332 2024-10-06T06:31:02.872657 application/epub+zip 231110 2024-10-06T06:30:58.888178 application/epub+zip 12257366 2024-10-06T06:31:21.403634 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 12194841 2024-10-06T06:31:11.181639 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 356212 2022-09-07T00:31:31.829182 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 343945 343871 2024-10-06T06:30:50.342227 2023-10-06T08:01:32.153075 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 343675 2020-12-18T00:54:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 140132 2020-12-18T00:54:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 343668 2020-12-18T00:54:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 140002 2020-12-18T00:54:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21627 2024-10-06T06:31:21.575564 application/rdf+xml 12316 2024-10-06T06:30:59.551168 image/jpeg 3083 2024-10-06T06:30:59.212175 image/jpeg 1787865 2024-10-06T06:30:56.481183 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog