The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
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ECLECTIC ENGLISH CLASSICS
THE SPY A TALE OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND BY JAMES FENIMORE COOPER EDITED BY NATHANIEL WARING BARNES PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH COMPOSITION IN DE PAUW UNIVERSITY GREENCASTLE, INDIANA JAMES FENIMORE COOPER "I believe I could write a better story myself!" With these words, since become famous, James Fenimore Cooper laid aside the English novel which he was reading aloud to his wife. A few days later he submitted several pages of manuscript for her approval, and then settled down to the task of making good his boast. In November, 1820, he gave the public a novel in two volumes, entitled _Precaution_. But it was published anonymously, and dealt with English society in so much the same way as the average British novel of the time that its author was thought by many to be an Englishman. It had no originality and no real merit of any kind. Yet it |
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