The bravo

By James Fenimore Cooper

Subjects: Politics and government, American Political fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Historical fiction, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Social conditions, thy

Description: Originally published in 1831, this novel is set in Venice in the bygone days of the Doges. It was inspired by Cooper's travels in Italy. The author has intended to give his countrymen, writes Cooper in his preface, "a picture of the social system of the soi-disant republics of the other hemisphere." Cooper aims to show, William Cullen Bryant said, that all systems which reserve power for the strong, inherently oppress the weak.