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The Red Rover: A Tale
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.
"The Red Rover: A Tale" by James Fenimore Cooper is a novel. 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.
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Par. “Mars dote on you for his novices.”
No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognize, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast. It would seem, at the first glance, that nature had expressly fashioned the spot to anticipate the wants and to realize the wishes of the mariner. Enjoying the four great requisites of a safe and commodious haven, a placid basin, an outer harbour, and a convenient roadstead, with a clear offing, Newport appeared, to the eyes of our European ancestors, designed to shelter fleets and to nurse a race of hardy and expert seamen. Though the latter anticipation has not been entirely disappointed, how little has reality answered to expectation in respect to the former. A successful rival has arisen, even in the immediate vicinity of this seeming favourite of nature, to defeat all the calculations of mercantile sagacity, and to add another to the thousand existing evidences “that the wisdom of man is foolishness.”
Contents
- 01Preface.
- 02To W. B. Shubrick, Esquire, U. S. Navy.
- 03The Red Rover.
- 04Chapter I.
- 05Chapter II.
- 06Chapter III.
- 07Chapter IV.
- 08Chapter V.
- 09Chapter VI.
- 10Chapter VII.
- 11Chapter VIII.
- 12Chapter IX.
- 13Chapter X.
- 14Chapter XI.
- 15Chapter XII.
- 16Chapter XIII.
- 17Chapter XIV.
- 18Chapter XV.
- 19Chapter XVI.
- 20Chapter XVII.
- 21Chapter XVIII.
- 22Chapter XIX.
- 23Chapter XX.
- 24Chapter XXI.
- 25Chapter XXII.
- 26Chapter XXIII.
- 27Chapter XXIV.
- 28Chapter XXV.
- 29Chapter XXVI.
- 30Chapter XXVII.
- 31Chapter XXVIII.
- 32Chapter XXIX.
- 33Chapter XXX.
- 34Chapter XXXI.
- 35Chapter XXXII.
- 36The End.
About this edition
- Author
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Advanced: for close, demanding reading
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 465 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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