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The Deerslayer

By: James Fenimore Cooper
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
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The Deerslayer is the first of the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper. Here we meet Natty Bumppo as a young man living in upstate New York in the early 1740s. The action begins as Bumppo, called "Deerslayer", and his friend Hurry Harry approach Lake Glimmerglass, or Oswego, where the trapper Thomas Hutter lives with his daughters, the beautiful Judith and the feeble-minded Hetty. Hutter's floating log fort is attacked by Iroquois Indians, and the two frontiersmen join in the fight.

Public Domain (P)2001 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Historical Fiction Classics Fiction American Literature Family Classics
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Historical Adventure • Vivid Imagery • Excellent Characterizations • Cultural Insights • Classic Storytelling

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shines light on the great simpler times and creates much feeling by the end of the read

very thought-provoking book

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The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper was written in 1841. I found the story interesting. The more formal writing typical of books written in the 1800s was fun to hear, but I discovered I kept wanting to push the story along as it seemed very slow. I thought it was a good idea to reread a classic and remember what the world was like at that time in America.

I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. The book is twenty hours and fifteen minutes. Raymond Todd does a good job narrating the book.

Interesting

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As a whole, the novel was slow. A physical copy is 550 pages, and yet takes place over three or four days. Plus, parts were exist and racist. BUT other parts broke stereotypes! They talked about equality between all races, not all Natives being the same, and Natives having the land before whites. Not to mention, women sweep in to save the day! (What?!) The descriptions are long and definitely something you'll want to speed up, but the portrayal of women and Natives in the 1840s was astonishing.

Interestingly radical for its time

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I started reading this book back in April of 1990 while I was on the deployment with the U.S. Navy on the USS Eisenhower. Life got in the way and I picked it up and put it down a few times over the years. It wasn’t until about a month ago that I picked it back up, only this time through Audible to finally get it read. It was a long journey but in the end it was worth waiting for. So glad I finally finished reading this book. Now off to the next adventure hopefully not another 30 years in the making!

30 years in the making

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This is a good portrayal of manliness as seen through the eyes of nineteenth-century Americans.

Excellent performance

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