Author:James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper
(1789–1851)

James Fenimore Cooper

Works

• Cooper's Works 1855 Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks01bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks02bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks03bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks04bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks05bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks06bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks07bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks08bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks09bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks10bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks11bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks12bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks13bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks14bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks15bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks16bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks17bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks18bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks19bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks20bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks21bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks22bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks23bryagoog, Internet Archive identifier: coopersworks24bryagoog

Novels

• Precaution: A Novel (1820)
• The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, 1821 - The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, Project Gutenberg
• The Pioneers: or The Sources of the Susquehanna, 1823 IA 1, IA 2
  • Volume 1 - (transcription project)
  • Volume 2 - (transcription project)
  • Introduction (1832)
  • Introduction by Susan Fenimore Cooper (1861)
• The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, 1823 - The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, Project Gutenberg
• Lionel Lincoln: or The Leaguer of Boston, 1825
• The Last of the Mohicans1826
  • First American Edition (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
  • First English Edition (transcription project) (transcription project) (transcription project)
• The Prairie, 1827 The Prairie, Project Gutenberg
• The Red Rover: A Tale, 1828 - The Red Rover: A Tale, Project Gutenberg
• The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish: A Tale, 1829 - The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish: A Tale, Project Gutenberg
• The Water-Witch: or the Skimmer of the Seas, 1830 - The Water-Witch: or the Skimmer of the Seas, Project Gutenberg
• The Bravo: A Tale, 1831 - The Bravo: A Tale, Project Gutenberg
• The Heidenmauer: or, The Benedictines, A Legend of the Rhine, 1832
• The Headsman: The Abbaye des Vignerons, 1833 - The Headsman: The Abbaye des Vignerons, Project Gutenberg
• The Monikins, 1835 - The Monikins, Project Gutenberg
• Homeward Bound: or The Chase: A Tale of the Sea, 1838 - Homeward Bound: or The Chase: A Tale of the Sea, Project Gutenberg
• Home as Found, 1838 - Home as Found: Sequel to Homeward Bound, Project Gutenberg
• The Pathfinder, 1840, - The Pathfinder: or the Inland Sea, Project Gutenberg
• Mercedes of Castile: or, The Voyage to Cathay, 1840
• The Deerslayer, 1841
• The Two Admirals, 1842
• The Wing-and-Wing: le Le Feu-Follet, 1842, - The Wing-and-Wing: le Le Feu-Follet, Project Gutenberg (Jack o Lantern)
• Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief, 1843, - Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief, Project Gutenberg
• Wyandotté: or The Hutted Knoll - Wyandotté: or The Hutted Knoll, Project Gutenberg [1], 1843
• Afloat and Ashore: or The Adventures of Miles Wallingford. A Sea Tale, 1844, - Afloat and Ashore: or The Adventures of Miles Wallingford. A Sea Tale, Project Gutenberg
• Miles Wallingford: Sequel to Afloat and Ashore - Miles Wallingford: Sequel to Afloat and Ashore, Project Gutenberg, 1844
• Satanstoe: or The Littlepage Manuscripts, a Tale of the Colony, 1845, - Satanstoe: or The Littlepage Manuscripts, a Tale of the Colony, Project Gutenberg
• The Chainbearer; or, The Littlepage Manuscripts, 1845
• The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin: Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts, 1846
• The Crater; or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific
  • (transcription project)
  • The Crater; or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific, Project Gutenberg, 1847
• Jack Tier: or the Florida Reefs - Jack Tier: or the Florida Reefs, Project Gutenberg, 1848
• The Oak Openings: or the Bee-Hunter - The Oak Openings: or the Bee-Hunter, Project Gutenberg, 1848
• The Sea Lions: The Lost Sealers - The Sea Lions: The Lost Sealers, Project Gutenberg, 1849
• The Ways of the Hour, 1850

Short stories

• Tales for Fifteen, or, Imagination and Heart - Tales for Fifteen, or, Imagination and Heart, Project Gutenberg
• "No Steamboats", 1832
• "An Evening of Visits" in Bentley's Miscellany, Vol. I, No. 1, 1837 (start transcription)
• "The Lake Gun", 1851 - The Lake Gun, Project Gutenberg

Play

• Upside Down: or Philosophy in Petticoats, 1850

Non-fiction

• Notions of the Americans: Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor, 1828
• Letter to General Lafayette, 1830
• A Letter to His Countrymen, 1834
• A Residence in France: With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland, 1836 A Residence in France: With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland, Project Gutenberg
• Gleanings in Europe, 1838
• The Chronicles of Cooperstown, 1838
• The American Democrat or Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America, 1838
• Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers, 1846
• New York: or The Towns of Manhattan, 1851 - New York: or The Towns of Manhattan, Project Gutenberg
• The History of the Navy of the United States of America, 1839
• Old Ironsides, 1839, Old Ironsides, James Fenimore Cooper Society Website
• Ned Myers: or Life before the Mast, 1843, - Ned Myers: or Life before the Mast, Project Gutenberg
• The Eclipse, 1869

Unsorted works

• Richard Dale, 1843
• Proceedings of the Naval Court-Martial in the Case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, &c., 1844

Works about Cooper

• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• Pages and Pictures from the writings of James Fenimore Cooper (1861), by daughter Susan Fenimore Cooper
• "Cooper, James Fenimore," by A. K. Fiske in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (1895) by Mark Twain
• "James Fenimore Cooper" in The American Novel (1921) by Carl Van Doren
• "Cooper, James Fenimore," by Charles Ledyard Norton in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Cooper, James Fenimore," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Cooper, James Fenimore," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Cooper, James Fenimore," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Cooper, James Fenimore," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• James Fenimore Cooper (1913), by Mary E. Phillips OCLC:271127^{all editions}[2]
• "Cooper, James Fenimore," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• The Cambridge History of American Literature, Fiction I: Brown, Cooper (1917-1921)
• "Cooper, James Fenimore," by L. A. Sherman in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Cooper, James Fenimore," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

On his works

• "Deerslayer, The," by Carl Van Doren in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Last of the Mohicans, The," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Last of the Mohicans, The," by Carl Van Doren in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Pathfinder, The," by Carl Van Doren in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Pilot, The," by Carl Van Doren in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Prairie, The," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Spy, The," by Carl Van Doren in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)