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The Spy

James Fenimore Cooper

Form
Form Historical Novel
Year
Year 1821
Pages
Pages 400

Between the British lines at New York and the American camps to the north lay a stretch of Westchester farmland that belonged to no one, where marauders from both sides came by night and a family's politics were whatever the men at the door wanted to hear. Across it walks a peddler with a pack on his back.

who died as he had lived, devoted to his country, and a martyr to her liberties
The Spy, James Fenimore Cooper

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