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The Prairie
Chronologically last in James Fenimore Cooper‘s Leatherstocking series, The Prairie follows the wagon train of Ishmael Bush and his family, who are journeying into the recently acquired Louisiana Purchase. The Bushes make their own laws and shun society, even that of an old, solitary Trapper who stumbles across their campsite. He does not fail to… Continue reading
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Paris in the Twentieth Century
This is a remarkable book with an even stranger setting – written in 1863, set in 1960, and not published till 1994. It’s not such a stretch, however, to include it in the Turn of the Century Salon, as Jules Verne was writing novels up through the early 1900s, and he is always associated with… Continue reading
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The House of the Seven Gables
New England, early 1800s. Hepzibah Pyncheon, a hermit-like woman with a severe face and a soft heart, lives quietly in the seven-gabled Pyncheon House. She is rescued from poverty only when her young relative, Phoebe, comes to live with her and help her run a small shop. Phoebe is interested to meet the other lodger… Continue reading
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Weekend Quote: The Law
“The law – ’tis bad to have it, but, I sometimes think, it is worse to be entirely without it.” – James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie J. F. Cooper’s The Prairie (1827) is the last book in the Leatherstocking series, of which his more famous The Last of the Mohicans is also part. The beauty… Continue reading
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