Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

A satirical essay by Mark Twain criticizing James Fenimore Cooper's fiction, especially "The Deerslayer," listing the author's violations of rules of literary art and mocking his implausible situations and woodcraft.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Other Non-Fiction›Essays and criticism›Studies of one writer or work›English-language writers

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