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The Pilot
James Fenimore Cooper
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"The sooner the better," returned the reckless sailor; "I have not had an opportunity of scaling my guns since we quitted Brest, though we passed several of the enemy's cutters coming up channel, with whom our bulldogs longed for a conversation. Mr. Griffith will tell you, pilot, that my little sixes can speak, on occasion, with a voice nearly as loud as the frigate's eighteens."
"But not to as much purpose," observed Griffith; "'vox et praeterea nihil,' as we said at school."
"I know nothing of your Greek and Latin, Mr. Griffith," retorted the commander of the Ariel; "but if you mean that those seven brass playthings won't throw a round-shot as far as any gun of their size and height above the water, or won't scatter grape and canister with any blunderbuss in y. . . Read More
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In reading historical fiction novels, I’ve noticed that the story is always affected by the placement in time of two lenses. The first lens is fixed at the time of the writer. Its location is measured by the time that has elapsed from the historical events depicted in the novel. As history fades int
If I rated entirely based on my enjoyment, this would be two stars. And even so, I can't give it more than three. So far, it's easily my least favorite Cooper, and it's overall a strikingly depressing book.
Much of what I said about The Spy applies equally well, if not better, for this book too. You
What should be a rousing tale of the exploits of John Paul Jones terrorizing shipping in the British Channel during the Revolutionary war is almost unreadable. The language is so flowery and repetitive, pages on end of unnecessary description and dialogue. The female characters are such ninnies- I h
Pilot (A Tale of the Sea) by James Fenimore Cooper 1824
One more deviation from my normal reads. Someone was asking about good historical fiction they might use for an essay and this was one of the offerings mentioned. I couldn't resist since its a fictionalized account involving a notable hero of re
Once you get used to the rather verbose style, The Pilot draws you into its story. The strength of the characters, rather than the plot, engages the reader. The seamen's dialect is particularly interesting.
If anybody can spin a tale, it's Jimmy Cooper, and I mean that with the utmost respect. He can literally put you in the story, in that time period, and given that none of us are from any but this one, can leave you confounded and a little unsettled. But then, the times were much that way in this sto
One of the first American action books I read of that genre. Being based on the real life exploits of John Paul Jones, Cooper romanticized sea life as well as giving a sense of American pride and identity. People will say that: it is romanticized and dramatized. But to them I say, "Why not? Isn't th
The real inventor of the popular Sea Tales, James Fenimore Cooper, a former American navy officer, the love of the ocean shows in his writing...A mysterious pair of ships, a large frigate, Spalmacity, 1,200 tons, and a tiny schooner Ariel, 100 tons, sail quietly by the east coast of England, the tim
If a picture is worth a thousand words, this author prefers TWO THOUSAND words. VERY, VERY, VERY wordy! Sounds funny to say writing uses too many words, but this writing does. Other of Cooper's stories are wordy, too, but those words convey much action that makes it worthwhile, if not exactly necess