- Precaution (novel)
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name = Precaution
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author =James Fenimore Cooper
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country =United States
language = English
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genre =Novel
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release_date = 1820
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media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
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followed_by ="Precaution" (1820) is the first novel written by American author
James Fenimore Cooper . It was written in imitation of Jane Austen's work and did not meet with contemporary success. [cite web | title=James Fenimore Cooper biog. | last= | first= | work=Books and Writers | url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jfcooper.htm | date=2003 | accessdate=2007-11-29 ] Cooper went on to have great success with works such as "The Pathfinder" (1841) and "The Deerslayer " (1840). The American reading public responded most to "The Last of the Mohicans " (1826).Background
It is thought that the novel was written after a challenge made by his wife. His biographer Warren Walker records it this way:
:"... In the customary practice of the day he was reading aloud to his wife one evening from a current English novel, but found the story dull. Throwing it aside, he declared, "I could write a better book than that myself." And Susan's challenge to make good his boast resulted in his writing Precaution (1820). . ." [cite book | title=James Fennimore Cooper: An Introduction and Interpretation | last=Walker | first=Warren | publisher=Barnes and Nobel | location=New York | edition=2nd ed. | date=1963 | id= ] [cite web | title=quoted in James Fenimore Cooper biog. | last= | first= | work=Books and Writers | url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jfcooper.htm | date=2003 | accessdate=2007-11-29 ]
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*cite book | title=James Fennimore Cooper: Literature & Life Story | last=Long | first=Robert Emmet | publisher=Continuum: A Fredrick Ungar Book | location= | edition= | date=1990 | id=ISBN 0826404316
*cite book | title=James Fennimore Cooper | last=Spiller | first=Robert E. | publisher=North Central Publishing Company | location=Minnesota | edition= | date=1936 | id=
*cite book | title=James Fennimore Cooper: An Introduction and Interpretation | last=Walker | first=Warren | publisher=Barnes and Nobel | location=New York | edition=2nd ed. | date=1963 | id=External links
*gutenberg|no=10365|name=Precaution
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