Book Cover of Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

by Mark Twain

"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" is an essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. It draws on examples from The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder from Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. The essay is characteristic of Twain's biting, derisive and highly satirical style of literary criticism, a form he also used to deride such authors as Oliver Goldsmith, George Eliot, Jane Austen, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Book Details

Language

English

Original Language

English

Published In

1895

Author

Mark Twain image

Mark Twain

United States

Twain was fascinated with science and scientific inquiry. He developed a close and lasting friendship with Nikola Tesla, and the two spent much time together in Tesla's laboratory. Twain patented thre...

More on Mark Twain

Listen/Download Audiobook

Read by:
00:00
Playback Speed 1.0
00:00
  • Select Speed

Related books

An Angler's Hours Cover image

An Angler's Hours by Hugh Tempest Sheringham

In this, Sheringham shares his love of fishing and the outdoors with his readers. He describes the thrill of catching a fish and the peacefulness of b...

The Uncommercial Traveller Cover image

The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal ca...

What's Wrong With the World Cover image

What's Wrong With the World by Gilbert K. Chesterton

In this work, Chesterton repeatedly startles and shocks us, for he reads as if he were commenting on the latest issue of the New York Times rather tha...

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Cover image

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton

Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort is composed, in part, from magazine articles by the American writer Edith Wharton on her time in France dur...

Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume 1  Cover image

Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume 1 by Robert Ingersoll

Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll was a Civil War veteran, American political leader and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his defen...

Five Lectures on Blindness  Cover image

Five Lectures on Blindness by Kate Foley

It contains five speeches by a very enthusiastic teacher who is blind from early childhood herself.

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting Cover image

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting by Jane Collier

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting was a conduct book written by Jane Collier and published in 1753. The Essay was Collier's first work, an...

Strange Roads & With the Gods in Spring Cover image

Strange Roads & With the Gods in Spring by Arthur Machen

In "Strange Roads," Machen weaves a haunting tale about a young man who sets out on a journey to uncover the secrets of the mysterious stone circle kn...

Optimism, An Essay Cover image

Optimism, An Essay by Helen Keller

It is a testament to Keller's unwavering belief in the power of positive thinking and the human spirit. In this insightful essay, Keller explores the...

Other People's Money Cover image

Other People's Money by Louis D. Brandeis

Other People's Money And How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis first published as a book in 1914, and reissued in...

Reviews for Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

No reviews posted or approved, yet...