The Monikins

The Monikins is a 1835 novel, written by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel, a beast fable was written between his composition of two of his more famous novels from the Leatherstocking Tales, The Prairie and The Pathfinder. Critic Christina Starobin compares the novels plot to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The novel, narrated by the main character, the English Sir John Goldencalf, is a satirical novel as Goldencalf alongside the American captain Noah Poke, travel on a series of humorous adventures.The novel is not very popular amongst readers of Cooper. A contemporary critic of the novel in The Knickerbocker, described the novel with great disappointment. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monikins Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book.