Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

In 1895, Mark Twain published his acerbic criticism of James Fenimore Cooper. In his essay The Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper, Twain asserted Cooper's popular Deerslayer, a Leatherstocking tale, committed 114 "offenses against literary art out of a possible 115." You are sure to enjoy this hilarious full on attack on the literary offenses of James Fenimore Cooper.