James Fenimore Cooper

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. As this work professes, in its title-page, to be a descriptive tale, they who will take the trouble to read it may be glad to know how much of its contents is literal fact, and how much is intended to represent a general picture. The author is very sensible...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. This work has already appeared in Graham's Magazine, under the title of Rose Budd. The change of name is solely the act of the author, and arises from a conviction that the appellation given in this publication is more appropriate than the one laid...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not man the less, but nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Every chronicle of manners has a certain value. When customs are connected with principles, in their origin, development, or end, such records have a double importance; and it is because we think we see such a connection between the facts and incidents of the...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. In one respect, this book is a parallel to Franklin's well-known apologue of the hatter and his sign. It was commenced with a sole view to exhibit the present state of society in the United States, through the agency, in part, of a set of characters with...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared: The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold: Say, is my kingdom lost? SHAKESPEARE....