The Red Rover: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

"The Red Rover: A Tale" by James Fenimore Cooper is a novel published in 1827. The story follows sailor Dick Fid, free black sailor Scipio Africanus, and Royal Navy officer James Wilder as they encounter the infamous pirate known as "The Red Rover." Praised as one of Cooper's finest sea adventures, the novel was an immediate success, swiftly adapted for theater in both America and England. Notable for featuring some of the first serious depictions of African lineage characters in American literature, it helped establish Cooper's reputation as a pioneer of the maritime fiction genre. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
Title The Red Rover: A Tale
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Rover
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 63.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Newport (R.I.) -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 11409
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Most Recently Updated Oct 28, 2024
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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