The Two Admirals The Two Admirals The Two Admirals is an 1842 nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel was written after the Leatherstocking Tales novel "The Deerslayer". Set during the 18th century and exploring the British Royal Navy, Cooper wrote the novel out of encouragement of his English publisher, who recommended writing another sea novel. Cooper had originally intended to write a novel where ships were the main characters, though eventually decided not to. The novels is one of three novels which Cooper would revise for editions following their first printing, the other two being "The Pathfinder" and "Deerslayer". When
Weird Tales the magazine, and Seabury Quinn's series of stories about Jules de Grandin, a detective who specialized in cases involving the supernatural, was very popular with the readers. Other well-liked authors included Nictzin Dyalhis, E. Hoffman Price, Robert Bloch, and H. Warner Munn. Wright published some science fiction, along with the fantasy and horror, partly because when "Weird Tales" was launched there were no magazines specializing in science fiction, but he continued this policy even after the launch of magazines such as "Amazing Stories" in 1926. Edmond Hamilton wrote a good deal of science fiction for "Weird Tales", though after a