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James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. He lived most of his life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William on property he owned. Cooper was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church and in his later years contributed generously to it. He attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society, but was expelled for misbehavior. Before embarking on his career as a writer he served in the U.S. Navy as a Midshipman, which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about counterespionage set during the Revolutionary War and published in 1821. He also wrote numerous sea stories and his best known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among naval historians Cooper’s works on the early U.S. Navy have been well received, but they were sometimes criticized by his contemporaries. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.
Home as Found: Sequel to Homeward Bound, by James Fenimore Cooper- Published on: 2015-11-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .61" w x 8.50" l, 1.38 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 268 pages
About the Author James Fenimore Cooper was a nineteenth-century American author and political critic. Esteemed by many for his Romantic style, Cooper became popular for his depiction of Native Americans in fiction. Before Cooper considered himself a writer, he was expelled from Yale University, served as a midshipman for the United States Navy, and became a gentleman farmer. Cooper wrote many notable works including The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Red Rover, which was adapted and performed on stage in 1828. Cooper passed away in 1851 at the age of 61.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. America's first novel of American manners by an American author By T. Patrick Killough How do you review a long, 29-chapter book with nearly 70 named characters, a dozen or more of whom are reasonably central to the tale? And of those dozen "biggies", nine are carryovers from a previous novel. That is the nature of James Fenimore Cooper's 1838 HOME AS FOUND, the continuation and completion of the same year's HOMEWARD BOUND.HOMEWARD BOUND was a sea adventure tale, of the sort pioneered by Cooper in 1823 with THE PILOT, featuring John Paul Jones and the American Revolution in British waters. HOMEWARD BOUND also launched an entirely new genre of novel: the passenger vessel as microcosm of a society or societies. The societies in question were mid-1830s England and the USA, and their 27 named characters represented national strengths and weaknesses. For mysterious causes, the luxurious 700-ton American sailing packet Montauk was chased from London and Portsmouth by a British warship clear across the Atlantic. The Montauk was dismasted in a severe storm. It took refuge in protected coastl waters off North Africa where it was seized by Arabs and then recovered by its own crew and most of the men passengers. It then refitted its rigging from a cannibalized Danish freighter and limped safely into Manhattan harbor, lightened by deaths of several men through combat and after the removal of two passengers by the British corvette.HOME AS FOUND begins in Manhattan the day the Montauk arrives and its passengers disembark. Our focus throughout is on three members of the wealthy, refined Effingham family on their way home to their (fictional) ancestral New York village, Templeton (today's Cooperstown), after a dozen years in Europe and elsewhere. The UK edition of this novel was named EVE EFFINGHAM and that 20-year old heiress is even less central to the story named for her than Sir Walter Scott's Wilfred of Ivanhoe had been in IVANHOE. Eve was only eight when she sailed for Europe with her recently widowed father, Edward, and with her nanny. In France they acquired and still have in New York Mlle Viefville, Eve's governess, and a chambermaid, Annette. From time to time they were joined by Edward's first cousin (brother's sons they were, born on the same day) John ("Cousin Jack") Effingham.Aboard the Montauk Eve had fallen in love with a young man met years earlier in Vienna. He was taken off the Montauk by the British warship's captain. By novel's end, when they and another couple wed in a double ceremony in Templeton, we will have known this young hero under four names, Mr. Blunt, Paul Powis, Paul Assheton and, finally, after identity unraveling, Paul Effington, legitimate son of immensely wealthy Jack Effington.The plot is weak and through its false identities, Gothic. The Effington party spends the winter in Edward's town house in Manhattan. It then moves by steamboat up the Hudson, then by canal and carriages on to the "the Wigwam," the restored family mansion in Templeton on Lake Otsego.Cooper was quite clear that the point of HOME AS FOUND was not adventure but satire: poking fun at American pretensions in the 1830s. Americans are seen as greatly declined after even the mere dozen years the Effinghams had spent learning languages, hobnobbing with a Czar, an Emperor and the great ones of Europe. They had ranged from London to Paris to Rome to Jerusalem and then went back home to New York.And what did the proud Effinghams find at home? Americans are provincial. They do not think for themselves. They take their ideas primarily from England and secondarily from France. In religion they are demand-side levellers. The returned Effinghams meet and resist a strong popular movement to convert the venerable Episcopalian church in Templeton into an amphitheater with no pulpit, opened up pews and with all future emphasis on preaching rather than praying. Templeton has five churches and even more sects and most local Christians disapprove of Eve because she dances, plays cards and reads her prayers from a book.During their winter season in Manhattan, the Effinghams and Mlle Viefville had attended a series of entertainments. Only one evening passed Effingham muster: an hour with an old-line hostess open to quiet, un-pushy, educated, creative old-line friends. Other parties are built either around nouveaux social climbers or pseudo-intellectuals and artists."Hajjis" are in great demand. By this term is meant returned Americans who have spent at least a week or two "doing" Paris. It is the custom in Manhattan "society" for women to move about a hall on the arm of a man. Eve and Mlle Viefville follow French fashion and move around unescorted. Horrors! Most of these people are scorned by the proud Effinghams and are disliked in turn. Are these Effinghams clones of Jane Austen's haughty Mr. Darcy?In HOME AS FOUND we deepen our acquaintance with off-putting American Steadfast Dodge, introduced to us on the decks of the Montauk in October 1835 (or thereabouts) in Portsmouth. He is a newspaper publisher returning from a couple of months in Europe whence he filed reports on the "true" state of affairs for a coterie of ignorant American readers. in HOMEWARD BOUND he ran from combat with the Arabs, but now unabashedly presents himself to readers as a hero.We also renew acquaintance with grizzled 60-year old Captain John Truck of the Montauk, invited to Templeton after another voyage to and from London. He becomes chums with a local fisherman dubbed "the Commodore." They spend many happy hours together on the lake, philosophize about the merits of salt water sailing v. fresh water sailing, drink together and admire the Effinghams together. Captain Truck had been lionized in Manhattan parties, where he was once mistaken for an Episcopalian clergyman. But the better people of Manhattan society recognize the Captain as a diamond in the rough. He even falls in love with a 70-year old American lady of true high society.And so it goes.America, argues Cooper, began extraordinarily well with Washington, Franklin and the Founders. But just look at it now! Men live to get rich quick, especially through creating speculative bubbles in western lands and the expanding frontier. Americans are provincial, levellers, jealous of their betters (better by virtue of inherited estates, education and demonstrated merit). Templeton is unrecognizable after a twelve year absence abroad. "Birds of passage" make up half New York's population. They come to an older settlement, pause a year or two for a breather before moving on westward, and try to change the good old settled ways of yore. Cynical Cousin Jack Effingham argues that 18 months in America is the equivalent of a generation in Europe. Things change very fast in Templeton, as elsewhere in the USA, and usually for the worse.HOME AS FOUND has been called America's first novel of American manners written by an American. Cooper held up a mirror to show his provincial countrymen how they might look to a family returning after a dozen educational years abroad. It was not a pretty picture.HOME AS FOUND has considerable humor. I found myself chuckling aloud a couple of dozen times. But its humor is sarcastic, obvious humor. James Fenimore Cooper attempted something important. His brain teemed with insights. But he often failed to find the right words or a light touch to make his point. He argued that it was almost impossible to write a novel of manners about America. For America had little history no hereditary social classes. And yet ..... HOME AS FOUND grows on you. I was confused, lost in detail and bored after a first reading. I greatly enjoyed the second. I now rate this book Three and a Half Stars, rounding upward to Four Stars: * * * *.-OOO-
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. back to normal book sizing By andronicus the format is difficult to read..it is so wide
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Mediocore Social Criticism By bit_kilnit If you are searching for a distinctly British aristocratic view on life, read this book. if you are an American, as this author is, flee from the terrible grip of "Home as Found" as the book slowly entraps one into delving further into the pages, when suddenly one finds the very culture that he/she has come to love has many loopholes of stupidity. If you wish to remain in ignorance of the benefits of aristocratic society, and the down points of American democracy, do not read this book. I give this work a 3 as it contains no real content for a storyline, but holds to the teaching principle of repetition to pass a point across.
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