1824
2 books
- Fair warning, Cooper's sentences take the scenic route, but once Hawkeye and Uncas are tracking through the forest with Magua one step ahead, the old-fashioned prose stops mattering. If you can settle into its pace, the wilderness itself becomes the best character.
- Robert Wringhim gets told he's predestined for heaven no matter what he does, then a stranger called Gil-Martin starts agreeing with him, and it gets very dark from there. If you like unreliable narrators and slow religious dread, this Scottish oddity from 1824 will unsettle you properly.