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2) Modern chivalry: containing the adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Regan, his servant
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Series
Pub. Date
1965
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
15) Pembroke
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Series
Pub. Date
1971
Physical Desc
254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
An exciting Revolutionary War tale of double agents and counterespionage in New York State in 1780.
A year after his imitative first novel Precaution (1820) enjoyed only modest success, James Fenimore Cooper penned The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, a Revolutionary War narrative initiating the American historical romance, a novel and a genre that quickly put to rest the British critic Sydney Smith's 1820 quip, "In the four corners of the globe,...