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It is difficult to say of which there is most in the world, a blind belief in religious dogmas, or a presumptuous and ignorant cavilling on revelation. The impression has gone abroad, that France was an example of the last, during the height of her great revolutionary mania;... Read Full Overview

The Year is 1799. Admiral Caraccioli is about to be executed on Lord Nelson's flagship. Young and in love with Carracioli's daughter, the spirited French privateer Raoul Yvard and his wily American sailing master Ithuel Bolt harass the British fleet. Yvard is captured but cunningly... Read Full Overview

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The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet is an 1842 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel includes a thematic interest in religiosity and faith. 1] The novel also introduces metacriticism into Cooper's sea fiction, as does The Sea Lions, unlike earlier novels which typically... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances draw a picture of frontier and American Indian life in the early American days which created a unique form of American literature... Read Full Overview

""The Wing and Wing"" or ""Le Feu Follet"" is a novel written by James Fenimore Cooper. The story revolves around two brothers, the Frenchman Raoul Yvard and the American, Herman Melville. The two brothers, who are both sailors, meet on the high seas and become fast friends... Read Full Overview