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Set near and on Lake Ontario in the 1750s, The Pathfinder is chronologically the third installation of James Fenimore Cooper's gripping Leatherstocking Tales. While the French Indian War rages on, Mabel, a nineteen-year-old young woman, is travelling to see her father, Sergeant Thomas Dunham. Accompanied by her uncle and two Native Americans, Smashing Arrows and June Dew, Mabel treks through the dense forests of upstate New York, towards her father's...
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This sensational tale from action-adventure master James Fenimore Cooper takes the form of the life story of a rugged old sailor, Miles Wallingford. As a youth, Miles, his brother, and their slave Neb ran away from the family home to become seamen, dashing the family's hopes that Miles will become a respectable lawyer. Veering wildly from calamities to courageous feats and back again, Afloat and Ashore is one sea tale you won't soon forget. As part...
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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....
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Der Pfadfinder James Fenimore Cooper - Charles Cap ist zusammen mit seiner Nichte Mabel Dunham auf dem Weg ins Fort Oswego, wo Mabels Vater als Sergeant arbeitet. Sie werden von dem indianischen Scout Arrowhead und seiner Frau June begleitet. Im Wald trifft die Gruppe auf den Waldläufer Natty Bumppo, genannt Pfadfinder, den Mohikaner Chingachgook und den Binnenkapitän Jasper Western James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller...
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The Oak Opening; or, The Bee Hunter is an 1848 novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel focuses on the activities of a professional honey-hunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed "Ben Buzz". The novel is the last of Cooper's novels to explore the relationships between Europeans and Native Americans in the early American expansion. The novel is set in Michigan's Oak Opening - a wooded prairie. The novel has a significant religious thematic focus. From Wikipedia...
6) The Lake Gun
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"The Lake Gun" is a satirical short story by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1850. The short story was commissioned by George E. Wood for $100, and published in a miscellany titled The Parthenon. It was reprinted in Specimens of American Literature in New York in 1866. The short story satirizes political demagoguery, focused on William Henry Seward.
The story was reprinted in 1932 by publisher William Farquhar Payson in a limited edition...
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The Crater, or Vulcan's Peak: a Tale of the Pacific is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1847. Cooper incorporated knowledge of ship construction he had acquired while working as a U.S. Navy midshipman in the 1810s. From merely surviving the loss of his shipmates and the embayment of his ship within The Reef, protagonist and role-model Mark Woolston goes on to thrive by his own industry. Following a regional volcanic upheaval which...
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Published in 1838, this novel continues and completes the adventures begun in Homeward Bound, published earlier the same year. The novel begins with the much-delayed return of the Effingham family to Manhattan. Cooper satirizes his fellow countrymen, contrasting them unfavorably with the sophistication acquired by the Effinghams through their European associations.
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Cooper's hypothetical European observer has traveled to the United States for the first time and wants to relate his impressions of the Americans those back home. In volume two "Cooper" visits Washington D.C. and relates his first impressions of the capitol. He focuses on the physical looks, etiquette, what he learns of America's wars, education, language, elections, religion, and many other aspects of American life.
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The Pathfinder shows Natty at his old trick of guiding tender damsels through the dangerous woods, and the siege at the blockhouse and the storm on Lake Ontario are considerably like other of Cooper's sieges and storms. Natty, in this novel commonly called La Longue Carabine, keeps in a hardy middle age his simple and honest nature, which is severely tested by his love for a young girl. She is a conventional heroine of romance. A certain soft amiability...
11) Satanstoe
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The first book in Cooper's Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy vividly captures "old New York" from the vantage point of one of its earliest families of settlers. This romance follows Cornelius "Corny" Littlepage as he travels from his home on Long Island Sound to nascent Manhattan and into the wilds of the territory, all along sharing his observations of country versus city.
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The Last of the Mohicans is an epic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time, and helped establish Cooper as one of the first world-famous American writers. The story takes place in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. During this war, the French often allied themselves...
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Une légende des mers
Voyageur et marin, James Fenimore Cooper retrace la rude épopée des coureurs de mer et l'aventure exaltante des pionniers du Nouveau Monde. Dans ce livre, il raconte l'histoire du Corsaire Rouge, terrible gentilhomme pirate, avec son orgueil de mauvais ange et son sublime amour pour la patrie.
Un roman d'aventures palpitantes dans le monde de la piraterie !
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Les étrangers étaient au nombre de trois, car c'étaient...
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The frontier of New York State is advancing rapidly. The story begins with an argument between the Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton and Natty Bumpo over who killed a buck. Leatherstocking and his closest friend, the Mohican Indian Chingachgook, begin to compete with the Temples for the loyalties of a mysterious young hunter known as Oliver Edwards, who eventually marries Elizabeth.
17) O Último Moicano
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Uma narrativa que combina heroísmo e romance com uma crítica poderosa à destruição da Natureza e da tradição. Tendo por cenário o cerco francês e índio do forte William Henry em 1757, «O Último Moicano» relata a história de duas irmãs, Cora e Alice Munro, filhas de um comandante inglês, que lutam para poder voltar para junto do pai. Nesta perigosa jornada são ajudas por Olho de Falcão e pelos seus companheiros Chingachgook e Uncas,...
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The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, and during the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They meet Natty Bumppo, the trapper, who has left his home in New York state to find a place where he cannot hear the sound of people cutting down the forests.
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In this work, Cooper adopts the perspective of a European traveling through the United States for the first time, revealing his impressions of Americans to fellow Europeans. Though lighthearted, this epistolary narrative draws deep comparisons between his "home country" and America-noting that he may be comparing an "unfortunate tavern" to "not the worst, nor the middling, but the best similar object" in Europe.
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In Jack Tier, Cooper crafts a sea-faring adventure set just after the end of the 1846 Mexican War, when peace had only very recently been settled. The novel was originally serialized in Graham's Magazine, and tells a fresh, rollicking story about the fluidity of identity.