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Edited with an Historical Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Kay Seymour House
"List! ye Landsmen, all to me." G. A. Stevens, "The Storm," 1. 2.
State University of New York Press Albany
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The preparation of this volume was made possible (in part) by a grant from the Program for Editions of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent Federal agency.
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1986 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Cooper, James Fenimore, 17891851 The pilot: a tale of the sea
(The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper) I. House, Kay Seymour. II. Title III. Series: Cooper, James Fenimore 17891851. Works. 1980. PS1412.A1 1986 813.2 184-8765 ISBN 0-87395-415-7 ISBN 0-87395-791-1
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Illustrations
xi
Historical Introduction
xvii
Dedication [1823]
1
Preface [1823]
3
Preface [1849]
5
The Pilot
11
Explanatory Notes
427
Textual Commentary
435
Textual Notes
449
Emendations
452
Rejected Readings
469
Word-Division
476
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Acknowledgments
For institutional support in the preparation of this volume, I wish to thank James Thorpe, Director of the Huntington Library, for a research fellowship and Marcus McCorison, Director and Librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, for a Fred Daniels fellowship. Small grants from San Francisco State University and the National Endowment for the Humanities partly repaid costs for student assistance and photocopying.
In addition to members of the Cooper family, the following persons, collections, and institutions have generously given permission for the use and publication of manuscript and illustrative materials: the American Antiquarian Society; the Clifton Waller Barrett Collection, University of Virginia; the British Library; the Henry E. Huntington Library; the Massachusetts Historical Society; the U. S. Naval Academy Museum, and Victor D. Spark of the Spark Gallery in New York City.
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