EBOOK HOMEWARD BOUND ***
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Homeward Bound;
or, The Chase.
A Tale of the Sea.
By J. Fenimore Cooper.
"Is 't not strange, Canidius.
That from Tarentum and Brundusium
He could so quickly cut the Ionian Sea,
and take in Toryne."--SHAKSPEARE.
Complete in One Volume.
New Edition.
NEW YORK:
Published by Hurd and Houghton,
Cambridge: Riverside Press.
1871
Homeward Bound.
Preface.
In one respect, this book is a parallel to Franklin's well-known apologue
of the hatter and his sign. It was commenced with a sole view to exhibit
the present state of society in the United States, through the agency, in
part, of a set of characters with different peculiarities, who had freshly
arrived from Europe, and to whom the distinctive features of the country
would be apt to present themselves with greater force, than to those who
had never lived beyond the influence of the things portrayed. By the
original plan, the work was to open at the threshold of the country, or
with the arrival of the travellers at Sandy Hook, from which point the
tale was to have been carried regularly forward to its conclusion. But a
consultation with others has left little more of this plan than the
hatter's friends left of his sign.
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