The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper

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The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper

Ever the experimenter in fiction, Cooper achieved a metaphysical dimension by assigning personal attributes to the ships in combat, and he also implicitly recalled his long friendship with Commodore William Branford Shubrick (much later, Rear Admiral Shubrick) in the story of the friendship between his two admirals-Oates and Bluewater-of the British Navy. The result is an intriguingly realistic romance.

"In outline, The Two Admirals..is as romantic as The Pilot or Red Rover...The details, however, are in large part solid and real, and events are so handled that they raise philosophical questions—the more interesting because Cooper keeps personally aloof and neither asks nor answers them directly—about the notion of legitimacy in government and the conventions of loyalty and obedience." — James Grossman, James Fenimore Cooper (William Sloane Associates, The American Men of Letters Series, pp. 157-58).

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ISBN 13 9780887069079
ISBN 10 088706907X
Title The Two Admirals
Author James Fenimore Cooper
Series The Writings Of James Fenimore Cooper
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher State University of New York Press
Year published 1990-05-10
Number of pages 511
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.