Cooper: Two Novels of the American Revolution (LOA #312)

Author: James Fenimore Cooper

Publisher: Library of America

ISBN: 9781598535822

Binding: hardcover

Section: Fiction

Included works: Spy: A Tale of The Neutral Ground / Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston

With his second novel, The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, in 1821, James Cooper (the Fenimore would come later) found his true voice and what became his most enduring subject matter: the history of his young nation, born of the clash between Old World and New. Cooper continued in the same vein with Lionel Lincoln; Or, The Leaguer of Boston (1825), a carefully researched panorama of the coming of the Revolution, complete with detailed depictions of the battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill.