The Leatherstocking Saga

皮袜传奇

· American Heritage · 原文

by James Fenimore Cooper, edited by Allan Nevins, illustrated by Reginald Marsh.

作者：詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀，艾伦·内文斯编辑，雷金纳德·马什插画。

Pantheon Books.

万神殿书籍。

833 pp.

833 页。

$8.50.

8.50 美元。

This book should help restore to his proper status as an artist in fiction a writer whose position in American literature has been considerably underestimated in recent years.

这本书应该有助于恢复他作为小说艺术家的应有地位，这位作家近年来在美国文学中的地位被大大低估了。

At the very least, it will bring to the attention of the present generation one of the greatest of American authors.

至少，它将引起当代美国最伟大作家之一的注意。

With this in mind, Dr. Nevins has made one readable volume out of the five Cooper novels which portray the life of Leatherstocking from youth, through manhood, to death.

考虑到这一点，内文斯博士从库珀的五本小说中制作了一本可读的书，描绘了皮袜子从青年时期到成年直至死亡的一生。

Where material has been deleted—it is principally the passages dealing with romantic love and with “supposed humor,” which have always been considered the weakest parts of Cooper’s work—well-written connecting links have been supplied.

在删除的材料中——主要是涉及浪漫爱情和“所谓的幽默”的段落，这些段落一直被认为是库珀作品中最薄弱的部分——但都提供了写得很好的连接链接。

No internal cuts have been made in the sections selected for printing.

选择打印的部分没有进行内部切割。

Quite properly, Dr. Nevins considers The Leatherstocking Saga Cooper’s masterpiece, and Leatherstocking himself, in the editor’s opinion, emerges as “the most striking and memorable single creation in all our letters.” And as to the narrative itself: “It was Cooper’s felicity to unroll a canvas whose panoramic width matched the shaggy continent; to paint on it the pageant of the primeval American forests, the Great Lakes, the smaller canoe-threaded waterways, and the rolling prairies …

内文斯博士非常恰当地认为《皮袜传奇》是库珀的杰作，而在编辑看来，《皮袜》本人是“我们所有信件中最引人注目、最令人难忘的单一创作”。至于叙述本身：“库珀很高兴地展开了一幅全景宽度与毛茸茸的大陆相匹配的画布；在上面描绘了美国原始森林、五大湖、较小的独木舟蜿蜒的水道和连绵起伏的草原……

We can go to him in youth for entertainment, and come back to him in maturity for our fullest presentation of the color and magnitude of the American scene in its primitive epoch.”

我们可以在年轻时去找他娱乐，成熟时再回到他那里，以最全面地展现美国原始时代场景的色彩和规模。”

For over 75 years, American Heritage has chronicled our nation's history like no other publication.

75 年来，《美国遗产》以无与伦比的方式记录了我们国家的历史。

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请通过今天的捐赠来支持我们值得信赖的、无党派的历史写作以及维持它的志愿者。

We rely on contributions from readers like you to survive.

我们依靠像您这样的读者的贡献才能生存。

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For 75 years, American Heritage has been the leading magazine of U.S. history, politics, and culture.

75 年来，《美国遗产》一直是美国历史、政治和文化的领先杂志。