James Fenimore Cooper
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Students of foreign literature seeking historical biographical material for Cooper studies
- Readers studying nineteenth-century American literature who are interested in early conventions of biography writing
- Readers accustomed to English-language public-domain books who want free material on the author's life
- University or institutional libraries that may include it in English literature reference lists
Not a good fit for
- General readers who only want Cooper's adventure novels themselves; this is not a work of fiction
- Readers with limited English reading ability who want a popular biography in Chinese
- Readers expecting a modern scholarly critical biography with substantial new historical material
Reading tips
- Read one or two of Cooper's major works first, then this book, to connect his life with his creative context.
- Read it alongside later Cooper biographies and note differences in biographical perspective across eras.
- Take brief chapter-by-chapter notes recording the works and chronological clues mentioned.
- Read it as an English-language document; look up unfamiliar place names and personal names as needed.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Mary Elizabeth Phillips (1857–1945) is usually cited in Chinese sources by her original English name, and publicly available information about her is limited. She was known for biography writing and literary research. Two of her works are held in this collection: James Fenimore Cooper and Tommy Tregennis. The former examines the life and writings of the American novelist James Fenimore Cooper, while the latter, judging by its title, has a narrative character, suggesting that her writing was not confined to a single genre. She is best known for her study of Edgar Allan Poe, in which she traces his life and literary world in biographical form, offering readers a relatively systematic reference for understanding this American writer. Her writing emphasizes historical sources and the arc of a life, in a plain and restrained style, giving her a place in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglo-American literary biography.
