The Bravo: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

"The Bravo: A Tale" by James Fenimore Cooper is a novel published in 1831. Set in Venice, it explores the political tensions between social elites and other classes in Europe's old order. Cooper contrasts the city's beautiful architecture and bright surfaces with the darkness of oppressive power structures beneath. The novel examines how exclusive advantages come at the expense of ordinary citizens, with Venice's government failing to meet the needs of its people. The first of Cooper's European trilogy, it uses light and shadow to illuminate themes of power and deception. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
Title The Bravo: A Tale
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bravo
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 68.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Venice (Italy) -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 10363
Release Date
Last Update Oct 28, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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