One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

The Deerslayer

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Deerslayer

By JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Condensation by ALFRED S. CLARK WHEN the young white hunters, Deerslayer and Hurry Harry, reached the Lake…

The Deerslayer: Hutter

Hutter was a hardy fighter, Hurry had the strength of ten ordinary men, and Natty Bumppo had won his name of Deerslayer because of his…

The Deerslayer: Serpent

Although the Indians had no canoes, Deerslayer knew that they could quickly make rafts, and he was glad enough that he had agreed to meet…

The Deerslayer: Spinoza

AUERBACH BERTHOLD AUERBACH, German novelist, was born on the 28th of February, 1812, at Nordstetten in the Wurttemberg Black Forest. His…

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