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Originally Posted by BDS
I read several Deerslayer books as a kid, and liked them. That was before I read Mark Twain's famous essay enumerating Cooper's literary offenses. It's hard to read the books with a straight face after reading it:
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Thanks for the link to Mark Twain's essay on Fenimore Cooper. I've just this minute checked out the contents in my copy of
The Portable Mark Twain and found the essay included there. For some reason, I've never bothered to read it. I shall enjoy doing so tonight.