James Fenimore Cooper
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Cooper's The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means to own land. The novel examines the claims of ownership of wilderness land among Native Americans, New England squatters, and the old New York families with legal deeds.
In 1845 and 1846, James Fenimore Cooper published The Littlepage Manuscripts, a trilogy reflecting on the anti-rent movement among small farmers leasing parcels in the Hudson Valley...
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This vintage book contains a fascinating account of the history of north America, being an exploration of the legends and traditions of its early settlers. It constitutes an attempt to preserve for future generations of the author's family, information concerning the conditions of those who lived, struggled, and died in the formative years of American colonisation. "The Legends and Traditions of a Northern County" will appeal to those with an interest...
23) Wing and Wing
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Published in 1842, this swashbuckling sea adventure and romance stands as one of Cooper's overlooked masterpieces. Set in 1799, the novel pits a dashing French pirate, Raoul Yvard, and his American sailing master, Ithuel Bolt, against the British navy, with the intention not only to defeat them, but also to find love.
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Published in 1823 and written out of dissatisfaction with the nautical life depicted by Sir Walter Scott in The Pirate (1822), The Pilot pioneered a new kind of sea adventure tale which drew on its author's experiences as a merchant seaman and Navy sailor. Set during the American Revolution, the novel features a character based on John Paul Jones.
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Published in 1850, this was Cooper's final novel-and America's first courtroom drama. When innocent Mary Monson is accused of murder, she refuses to clear her name, insisting on a jury trial. Cooper, who opposed the trial-by-jury system, mounts his soapbox to rail against the system's susceptibility to corruption, among other flaws.
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James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) se considera el primer gran novelista norteamericano de fama internacional gracias a sus historias de aventuras, en especial 'El último de los mohicanos'. Antes de consolidarse como tal, sin embargo, probó suerte con la narrativa breve y acometió la redacción de algunos relatos de índole sentimental e intimista, de los que solo acabó dos: «Imaginación» y «Corazón». Nada más publicarlos, bajo un pseudónimo...
27) The Monikins
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In this inventive and comical novel-and his first work of satire-James Fenimore Cooper skewers American and British politics. Here is the story of Sir John Goldencalf, member of British society, and American Captain John Poke, as they accompany four highly intelligent, and conversant, monkeys back to their homeland.
28) The Oak Openings
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A fantastic historical adventure novel set during the War of 1812, written by the author of 'The Last of the Mohicans', James Fenimore Cooper.
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This 1843 novel is set in the Butternut Valley of New York State. In 1765, Captain Hugh Willoughby leaves the British army and sets up a colony called Hutted Knoll with his American-born wife. Ten years later, when America declares its independence from Britain, Willoughby and his son, Robert, will find their loyalties torn.
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Filled with James Fenimore Cooper's singular, memorable characters, and set in upstate New York and on the high seas, Miles Wallingford continues his nautical adventures with the crusty Moses Marble. As the sequel to Afloat and Ashore (1844), this book takes part in a series that depicts the lives of four generations of a family who settled in America, only to see the ups and deep downs of democracy.
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This satirical short novel displays a side of Cooper unfamiliar to many modern readers. It is told from the point of view of an actual handkerchief: its origins in a French flax field, how it was passed around New York City society in the 1830s, and its eventual return to its maker. In this story, Cooper makes a point of ridiculing Victorian materialism-which places value on consumption, not production.
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Le récit haletant d'une incroyable course poursuite nautique!
Voyageur et marin, James Fenimore Cooper retrace la course-poursuite entre deux navires américains, armés pour la chasse au trésor dans les eaux antarctiques.
Les voiliers finissent par se perdre.
Ce roman a été publié pour la première fois en 1849.
Découvrez ce roman d'aventures écrit par l'un des grands écrivains américains du XIXe siècle.
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Ce qui jetait beaucoup...
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Les péripéties d'un jeune marin
Embarqué dès son plus jeune âge sur un navire marchand - pour échapper aux études et à la solitude - le jeune matelot apprend peu à peu les rudiments de la survie à bord et en mer. Il embarque sur des navires de commerce et navigue régulièrement entre l'Europe et l'Amérique. Il connaît les tempêtes, les accidents de mer, la misère, la prison. Il éprouve le feu de l'ennemi anglais et la captivité....
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The Sea Lions (1849) is the twelfth and last of Cooper's sea novels, a genre he largely invented. Drawing upon memories from nearly three decades earlier of his own ventures in whaling and his reviews of accounts of exploring and hunting in cold seas, Cooper fashioned an exciting tale of two small vessels capturing seals near the Antarctic Circle. When the sealers are trapped by the ice and forced to winter over in extreme conditions, Cooper's hero...
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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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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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Set during King Philip's War, this novel takes place in the frontier community of Wish-Ton-Wish. After many years of war between the natives and the English settlers, a family is split between the two sides. The "wept" is a young girl, Ruth Heathcote, who, abducted by Native Americans, grows to marry their leader, Conanchet. Cooper contrasts the bloodthirsty piety of the Puritan preacher Meek Wolfe with the nobility of Conanchet.
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A disagreement over the killing of a buck during a hunting trip brings an elderly Natty Bumppo, known as Leatherstocking, into contact with a judge and his daughter. Staunchly defending his right to hunt in the rapidly-changing Lake Otsego region, Bumppo challenges the prevailing attitudes towards the cultivation of the forest at the height of its pioneer settlement.
The first of the five Leatherstocking novels to be published, The Pioneers is...
40) Precaution
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It has been said that Precaution, James Fenimore Cooper's first novel, was written as the result of a wager Cooper made with his wife. A novel of English society, manners, and morals, Precaution imitates the works of Jane Austen and its intriguing style sets it apart from Cooper's subsequent fiction.