James Fenimore Cooper

It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war, attempt to join their father. Thwarted by Magua, the 'Indian runner', they find help in the person of Hawk-eye, the white woodsman, and his companions, the Mohican Chingachgook and Uncas, his son, the last of his tribe.Cooper’s novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain, skirmishes, treachery and brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists and the native peoples. Through the character of Hawkeye, Cooper raises lasting questions about the practices of the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures.

A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called Deerslayer for the daring that sets him apart from his peers. But he has yet to meet the test of human conflict. In a tale of violent action and superbly sustained suspense, the harsh realities of tribal warfare force him to kill his first foe, then face torture at the stake. Still yet another kind of initiation awaits him when he discovers not only the ruthlessness of "civilized" men, but also the special danger of a woman's will. His reckless spirit transformed into mature courage and moral certainty, the Deerslayer emerges to face life with nobility as pure and proud as the wilderness whose fierce beauty and freedom have claimed his heart.

The Pathfinder (1840), Cooper's most picturesque novel and the fourth of the five Leatherstocking Tales, is a naval story set on the Great Lakes of the 1750s. Fashioned from Cooper's own experience as a midshipman on Lake Ontario in 1808-09, the novel revives Natty Bumpo (who had died in The Prairie), and illuminates Cooper's interest in American history with his concern for social development.

The first of the five Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers is perhaps the most realistic and beautiful of the series. Drawing on his own experiences, Cooper brilliantly describes Frontier life, providing a fascinating backdrop to the real heart of the novel--the competing claims to landownership of Native Americans and settlers. This edition follows the publication of The Last of the Mohicans in the World's Classics series and uses the standard text approved by the Modern Language Association.

In the spring of 1826, soon after the publication of The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper immersed himself in The Prairie. In taking Natty Bumppo from his beloved forests of New York state to the Great American Plains, Cooper was in part fulfilling his own prophecy at the end of The Pioneers. Though he was certainly recalling the periodic westward removals of Daniel Boone, one of the prototypes of Natty Bumppo, he was also responding to the ever-increasing public interest in Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase.No characterization more clearly exhibits the firmness of Cooper's vision than that of Natty Bumppo. As his colossal entrance implies, Cooper has reconceived him, and through him, the world in which he moves. Though descended from the garrulous hunter of The Pioneers and reduced to the lowly occupation of a trapper, his moral stature has undergone an apotheosis. Though he is again in The Prairie the loyal guide he was in The Last of the Mohicans, his words here take on even more striking moral force. He is both the spokesman for and the representation of, the most basic rhythm of existence, the natural cycle of life which must end in death.The metaphor of the prairie as the sea, shaped by Cooper's meditation on the relationships between Nature, God, and Man, seems to have had a fertile hold on his imagination. The sea is, as he knew by personal experience, a place of isolation and emptiness on whose surface man lives a precarious life. Imagistically Cooper's plot sets his little bands—the groups of outcasts led by Natty, Ishmael's family, the Sioux, and the Pawnees—to converge and tack away from each other. There is also much in the bursts of action—escapes, captures, shifting alliances, steering by moonlight—that evokes sea life. This same metaphor also points us to a central theme of The Prairie. Beyond the fast-paced action, the novel becomes a meditation on the ways of establishing justice between men.

A historical adventure reminiscent of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley romances, Cooper’s novel centers on Harvey Birch, a common man suspected of being a spy for the British.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, each featuring the main hero Natty Bumppo, known by European settlers as "Leatherstocking," 'The Pathfinder", and "the trapper" and by the Native Americans as "Deerslayer," "La Longue Carabine" and "Hawkeye". -summary from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The five novels in The Leatherstocking Tales (collected in two Library of America volumes), Cooper’s great saga of the American wilderness, form a pageant of the American frontier. Cooper’s hero, Natty Bumppo, is forced ever farther into the heart of the continent by the advance of civilization that he inadvertently serves as advance scout, missionary, and critic. Praised by Balzac, Melville, and D. H. Lawrence, The Leatherstocking Tales narrates the conflict of nations (Indian, English, French, and American) amid the dense woods, desolate prairies, and transcendent landscapes of the New World.Leatherstocking first appears in The Pioneers (1823), as an aged hunter living on the fringe of settlement near Templeton (Cooperstown), New York, at the end of the eighteenth century. There he becomes caught in the struggles of party, family, and class to control the changing American land and to determine what sort of civilization will replace the rapidly vanishing wilderness. When Natty Bumppo started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset at the novel’s close, one early reader said, “I longed to go with him.”The Last of the Mohicans (1826) is a pure unabashed narrative of adventure. It looks back to the earlier time of the French and Indian Wars, when Natty and his two companions, Chingachgook and Uncas, survivors of a once-proud Indian nation, attempt a daring rescue and seek to forestall the plan of the French to unleash their Mingo allies on a wave of terror through the English settlements.The Prairie>/em> (1827) takes up Natty in his eighties, driven by the continuous march of civilization to his last refuge on the Great Plains across the Mississippi. On this vast and barren stage, the Sioux and Pawnee, the outlaw clan of Ishmael Bush, and members of the Lewis and Clark expedition enact a romantic drama of intrigue, pursuit, and biblical justice that reflects Cooper’s historical dialectic of culture and nature, of the American nation and the American continent.

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The hero of The Pilot - modeled on John Paul Jones - leads the American Navy in dangerous raids on the English coast. James Fenimore Cooper's fourth novel, published in 1823, helped start the genre of sea novels. Cooper's other major works include the renowned Leatherstocking The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prarie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer.

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In this rare and unusual text, a pocket handkerchief tells its story—from flax field to its creation in Paris, and on to respectable Manhattan society. After passing through many hands, it is finally reunited with its original maker. Significant for its surprising narrative voice and its exploration of French and American cultures, this delightfully quirky satire was Cooper's first proper attempt at magazine writing. James Fenimore Cooper was one of the most popular writers of early 19th-century America. Best known for his historical romances and tales of life on the frontier, Last of the Mohicans is considered to be his masterpiece.

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The definitive edition of American writer Cooper's 1844 seafaring novel is supported by a 37-page historical introduction that places it in the contexts both of his writing career and the literary milieu of the middle 19th century, examines the style and strategy of the first-person narrative, and teases out some of the sources he used to make his account credible to his readers. Each volume contains one of the two parts Cooper originally intended the novel to appear in. For each part, explanatory and textual notes, emendations, rejected readings, and word-divisions are provided. The second part is also followed by textual commentary and a note on the manuscript and proof sheets. The two volumes are paged separately. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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The Water-Witch was first published in America in 1830. If less brilliant than The Red Rover the spirit and interests pervading The Water-Witch are very striking; there is an atmosphere of romance infused into the narrative singularly different from the sober coloring of Puritan life in its predecessor, Wish-ton-Wish. It is strikingly picturesque. But on the other hand there is less of high moral tone than was usual with Cooper; it carries a carnival aspect about it; the shell is gay and brilliant, but the kernel is less nourishing than usual.

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A classic story of love and sea warfare from one of America's greatest novelists.The year is 1799. Admiral Caraccioli is about to be executed on Lord Nelson's flagship. Young and in love with Carracioli's daughter, the spirited French privateer Raoul Yvard and his wily American sailing master Ithuel Bolt harass the British fleet. Yvard is captured but cunningly escapes, setting up a showdown at sea.Originally published in 1846, The Wing-and-Wing is a captivating novel of seafaring adventure, romance, and Napoleonic history, from the masterful author of The Leatherstocking Tales.

This is the essential collection of James Fenimore Cooper's political writings.

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Homeward Bound by James Fenimore Cooper - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of James Fenimore Cooper’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Cooper includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.eBook features:* The complete unabridged text of ‘Homeward Bound by James Fenimore Cooper - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’* Beautifully illustrated with images related to Cooper’s works* Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook* Excellent formatting of the text

Lederstrumpf - Erzählungen nach J.F. Cooper für die Jugend frei bearbeitet von Oscar Höcker, mit 50 Textillustrationen und 1 Farbdruckbild von Willy PlankAtemberaubende Spannung, grenzenloses Abenteuer und echte Die Gestalt des Einzelgängers Natty Bumppo, genannt Lederstrumpf, steht für den vorbildhaften Frontiersman der amerikanischen Pionierzeit. Unerbittlich gegen seine Feinde, treu und zuverlässig gegenüber seinen Freunden ist er Wegbegleiter der amerikanischen Unabhängigkeit genauso wie Zeuge der Zerstörung indianischen Lebens. Ihm zur Seite steht sein Freund, der Indianerhäuptling Chingachgook.EnhäDer WildtöterDer letzte MohikanerDer PfadpfinderDie AnsiedlerDie Prärie

The Oak Openings is one of James Fenimore Cooper's late novels that never got included among his classics but is regarded by some as a classic. Perhaps best known for his novel The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper wrote extensively about the American Indians, and that idea is alive in this book as well, with the theme of the Indians as the lost tribe of Israel. It is the only novel he ever wrote that is set in Michigan. It's also a story about raising bees, and is alternately known as The Bee-Hunter

James Fenimore Cooper's popular historical romances of frontier and Indian life created a unique form of American literature, spellbinding readers across both sides of the Atlantic. For the first time in publishing history, Delphi Classics presents Cooper’s complete FICTIONAL works, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Cooper's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 32 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works such as THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS are illustrated with their original artwork * Special contents table for THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES series of novels * Includes Cooper’s last novel THE WAYS OF THE HOUR, first time in digital print * The complete short stories, with rare tales appearing for the first time * Includes Cooper's play and a generous selection of non-fiction * Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Cooper’s contribution to literature * Features two biographies - discover Cooper's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles The Leatherstocking Tales The Novels PRECAUTION THE SPY THE PIONEERS THE PILOT LIONEL LINCOLN THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS THE PRAIRIE THE RED ROVER THE WEPT OF WISH-TON-WISH THE WATER-WITCH THE BRAVO THE HEIDENMAUER THE THE ABBAYE DES VIGNERONS THE MONIKINS HOMEWARD BOUND HOME AS FOUND THE PATHFINDER MERCEDES OF CASTILE THE DEERSLAYER THE TWO ADMIRALS THE WING-AND-WING WYANDOTTÉ AFLOAT AND ASHORE MILES WALLINGFORD SATANSTOE THE CHAINBEARER THE REDSKINS THE CRATER JACK TIER THE OAK OPENINGS THE SEA LIONS THE WAYS OF THE HOUR The Shorter Fiction TALES FOR OR IMAGINATION AND HEART NO STEAMBOATS AN EXECUTION AT SEA AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF THE LAKE GUN The Play UPSIDE OR PHILOSOPHY IN PETTICOATS Selected Non-Fiction A RESIDENCE IN FRANCE RECOLLECTIONS OF EUROPE THE CHRONICLES OF COOPERSTOWN NED MYERS NEW YORK The Criticism DISCOURSE ON THE LIFE, GENIUS, AND WRITINGS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER by W. C. Bryant FENIMORE COOPER’S LITERARY OFFENCES by Mark Twain BOOKS NECESSARY FOR A LIBERAL EDUCATION by Wilkie Collins TALES OF THE SEA, 1898 by Joseph Conrad VARIOUS REVIEWS by Carl Van Doren The Biographies JAMES FENIMORE COOPER by Thomas R. Lounsbury JAMES FENIMORE COOPER by Mary E. Phillips Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Last of the Mohicans (illustrated) + The Pathfinder + The Deerslayer (3 Unabridged Classics)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Last of the Mohicans is an historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1826. It is a classic of American literature set during the French and Indian wars of the Eighteenth Century.This omnibus contains the following books:The Last of the MohicansThe PathfinderThe DeerslayerJames Fenimore Cooper ( 1789 – 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales.

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Though Satanstoe has been too much neglected by readers of Cooper's time and ours, it is one of his most interesting books, combining nostalgic autobiographical recollections, pictures of manners, action and adventure, and social philosophy in one of the author's happiest experiments in fiction. Ostensibly, it gives a comprehensive view of colonial life and society in New York State in the middle of the eighteenth century, blending all these elements with the narrative skill for which the author has always been famous.

In această povestire va fi mai ales vorba de tribul delavarilor – la care era în mare cinste vestita si vechea ramura razboinica a mohicanilor — si de tribul huronilor, adesea in lupta cu delavarii.

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