First published in 1844, this narrative chronicles the adventures of Miles Wallingford, who runs away to sea to embark on a career as a merchant sailor. He runs the hazards of life at sea and intervals ashore involve him in the delights of romance and perils of legal and financial intrigue. If you have never read Cooper, start with this book. Unlike his other novels, this was...
"Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief" was James Fenimore Cooper's first serious attempt at magazine writing, and Graham's Magazine would publish other contributions from him over the next few years, notably a series of biographic sketches of American naval officers, and the novel "Jack Tier; or The Florida Reef" (1846-1848). Though hardly one of Cooper's greatest works,...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 17206 p. Джеймс Фенимор Купер — американский романист и сатирик. Классик приключенческой литературы. И хотя его первый роман "Предосторожность" остался практически незамеченным, последующее творчество писателя стало настолько мощным и грандиозным, что именно он стал первым писателем Нового Света, чье творчество было признано Старым Светом и стало...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 17206 p. Джеймс Фенимор Купер — американский романист и сатирик. Классик приключенческой литературы. И хотя его первый роман "Предосторожность" остался практически незамеченным, последующее творчество писателя стало настолько мощным и грандиозным, что именно он стал первым писателем Нового Света, чье творчество было признано Старым Светом и стало...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 10038 p. 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...
On his return to America in 1833 Cooper found a lack of moral progress; absent were frankness of speech and independence of action; people were actually afraid to criticize anything American; society was interested only in material wealth; young men were physically and mentally lazy; "Home as Found" was an attempt, perhaps imperfect, to inspire something better. This is the sequel...
"Jack Tier or the Florida Reef" is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1848 by New York publisher Hurd and Houghton. Set during the Mexican-American war, the novel relates a twenty-year homosocial relationship verging on the homoerotic between a sailor and the captain of the boat. But by the end of the novel the sailor is the captain's wife, transforming the...
Introductory Note: In 1851, just before his death on the eve of his 62nd birthday, James Fenimore Cooper was working a history of New York City, for which he planned the title of "The Towns of Manhattan." Cooper never completed it, and most of the parts of the manuscript that he did complete were destroyed in a fire at the printers after his death. The Introduction to the work,...
The "Oak Openings" 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...
This is the first novel written by Cooper-a story of English rural life, on the model in vogue at the time, but strange to the romance-readers of the present. The scenes alternate between the hall, the rectory, and the other upper-class haunts of a country neighborhood, and the characters are mostly drawn from the nobility, from dukes downward. It is said that the author, after...
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...
"When the author of these little tales commenced them, it was her intention to form a short series of such stories as, it was hoped, might not be entirely without moral advantage; but unforeseen circumstances have prevented their completion, and, unwilling to delay the publication any longer, she commits them to the world in their present unfinished state, without any flattering...
"The Bravo" is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1831 in three volumes. Inspired by a trip to Europe where he traveled through much of Italy, the novel is set in Venice. Like his other novels set in Europe, "The Bravo" was not very well received in the United States. The book largely focuses on political themes, especially the tension between the social elite and...
Переложение историй о затопленном морем городе Винетте и о Робинзоне Крузо в духе современных Ф. Куперу представлений об идеальном устройстве общества, а также о способностях белого человека приспосабливаться к новым условиям обитания. Райская жизнь в колонии, основанной на необитаемом острове, из-за алчности поселенцев со временем перестает быть райской, так что ее основателю...
The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first...
Cooper J. F. The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath
Первая книга пенталогии об истории колонизации Северной Америки американского писателя Джеймса Фенимора Купера, написанная в 1841 году
В романе «The Headsman», в отличие от большинства куперовских произведений, разворачивается не на Американском континенте, а в самом сердце Европы. В составе группы путешествующих в первой четверти XVIII века из Швейцарии в Италию — сначала на барке через Женевское озеро, а затем к перевалу Сен-Бернар — оказывается палач одного из швейцарских кантонов — примета, сулящая, согласно...
"The Lake Gun" is one of James Fenimore Cooper's very few short stories, and was written in the last year of his life. It was commissioned by George E. Wood for publication in a volume of miscellaneous stories and poems called "The Parthenon" (New York: George E. Wood, 1850), and Cooper received $100 for it. The story was reprinted a few years later in a similar volume called...
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans,...
Have you ever read a great classic and come across an unfamiliar word? There are many editions of The Last of the Mohicans. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advance of entrance examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only...
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The...
The last of the Mohicans a narrative of 1757. Rev., cor., and illus. with a new introduction, etc. by the author. Published 1831 by H. Colburn and R. Bentley in London It is 1757. The English and French are engaged in a savage, bloody war for control of the North American continent. Making tenuous, shifting alliances with various Indian tribes, the two European powers struggle...
Seattle, AmazonClassics, 1992. — 304 p. — (Wordsworth Classics). — eISBN 9781542099592. 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...
This story, a satire on the party politics of the day, in which political and social questions are discussed by monkeys, or manikins, was the subject of much adverse comment in the newspapers of the time, but contains little to interest the reader of the present. In the introduction the author pretends that the manuscript was sent to him at Geneva, Switzerland, together with a...
The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is an historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel Cooper wrote featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and is considered as forming the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales. The inland sea of the title is Lake Ontario.
Следопыт, или На берегах Онтарио — третья книга из пенталогии об истории колонизации Северной Америки американского писателя Джеймса Фенимора Купера, написана в 1840 году. Джеймс Фенимор Купер (1789—1851) — американский романист. Классик приключенческой литературы.
"The Pilot" was Cooper's fourth novel and his first sea tale. A sailor by profession, Cooper had undertaken to surpass Walter Scott's Pirate (1821) in seamanship. The hero of the book is John Paul Jones, who appears as always brooding upon a dark past and a darker fate. Yet he is not so morbid but that he can occasionally rouse himself to terrific activities in his raids along the...
"The Pioneers" is a historical novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. It was the first of five novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Published in 1823, the period it covers makes The Pioneers the fourth chronologically in terms of the novels' plots. The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features an elderly Leatherstocking...
The Prairie, novel by James Fenimore Cooper, published in two volumes in 1827, the third of five novels published as The Leatherstocking Tales. Chronologically, The Prairie is the fifth in the series, ending with the death of the octogenarian frontiersman Natty Bumppo, called Hawkeye. The Prairie extols the vanishing American wilderness, disappearing because of the westward...
This story relates to the days before the Revolutionary War; and is one of Cooper’s most exciting sea tales. Henry Ark, a lieutenant on his Majesty’s ship Dart, is desirous of distinguishing himself by aiding in the capture of the notorious pirate, the Red Rover. With this in view he goes to Newport, disguised as a common sailor under the name of Wilder, and joins the Rover’s...
In writing The Spy, his second novel, Cooper was influenced by a wish to set himself right with his critics. His first book had been criticized severely because he drew his scenes and characters from abroad and wrote in what was thought to be an unpatriotic vein. The author, who had been a midshipman in the navy, felt this keenly and determined to write a book which should deal...
The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground», 1821. Language: English. Джеймс Фенимор Купер (1789—1851) — американский романист. Классик приключенческой литературы. Случай сделал его писателем. Читая однажды вслух жене какой-то роман, Купер заметил, что не трудно написать лучше. Жена поймала его на слове: чтобы не показаться хвастуном, он в несколько недель написал свой первый роман...
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...
Wyandotté is a historical novel published by James Fenimore Cooper in 1843. The novel is set in New York state during the American Revolution. The main character of the novel is an Indian, "Saucy Nick", also called Wyandotté ("Great Chief"), whose depictions violate stereotypes of Native Americans.
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