The Monikins

By James Fenimore Cooper

Book Overview

It is not improbable that some of those who read this book, may feel a wish to know in what manner I became possessed of the manuscript. Such a desire is too just and natural to be thwarted, and the tale shall be told as briefly as possible. During the summer of 1828, while travelling among those valleys of Switzerland which lie between the two great ranges of the Alps, and in which both the Rhone and the Rhine take their rise, I had passed from the sources of the latter to those of the former river, and had reached that basin in the mountains that is so celebrated for containing the glacier of the Rhone, when chance gave me one of those rare moments of sublimity and solitude, which are the more precious in the other hemisphere from their infrequency.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515006069
• ISBN13: 9781515006060
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Caudology, The Seat of All Reason

'The Monikins' was written at the exact midpoint of James Fenimore Cooper's thirty year writing career, and is totally unique in his body of works. Although it embraces nearly all of the themes and many of the ideas found in his other works, 'The Monikins' stands as Cooper's only satire. The tale is that of a member of the English aristocracy, Sir John Goldencalf, a staunch defender of the European social-stake system, and...