Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Pioneers
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
William Cooper's Town
Author: Alan TaylorPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525566996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book. William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a wealthy land speculator and U.S. congressman in what had until lately been the wilderness of upstate New York, but his high-handed style of governing resulted in his fall from power and political disgrace. His son James Fenimore Cooper became one of this country’s first popular novelists with a book, The Pioneers, that tried to come to terms with his father’s failure and imaginatively reclaim the estate he had lost. In William Cooper’s Town, Alan Taylor dramatizes the class between gentility and democracy that was one of the principal consequences of the American Revolution, a struggle that was waged both at the polls and on the pages of our national literature. Taylor shows how Americans resolved their revolution through the creation of new social reforms and new stories that evolved with the expansion of our frontier.
Snow Goose
Author: Paul GallicoPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307789071
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of Dunkirk In the marshes of Essex, one of the last wild places left in England, a disfigured artist lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse. Shunned by society, he spends his days painting scenes of the coast and the birds that migrate to the meadowlands every winter. His days are solitary until one November afternoon, a young girl from a nearby village comes to his door carrying a wounded snow goose in her arms. The unlikely pair develop a friendship that deepens over the ensuing years, waiting together for the arrival of the birds every autumn. In 1940, with England at war, the birds depart early from the shores. The man, too, is called away by his duty as an Englishman to help evacuate the soldiers stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. A moving tale of love, war, bravery, and sacrifice.
The Red Rover
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea stories
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Deerslayer Anthologie
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: Feedbooks
ISBN: 2291012452
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2628
Book Description
Anthologie contenant : The Deerslayer The Last of the Mohicans The Pathfinder The Pioneers The Prairie
The Prairie
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Five Novels
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: Barnes & Noble
ISBN: 9780760793084
Category : Bumppo, Natty (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The pathfinder: This fourth Leatherstocking tale finds the pathfinder, Natty Bumppo examining his role as an explorer for British/Colonial forces in the forests and islands around the Great Lakes. He, also falls in love for the first and only time in the novels, only to see his choice all in love with another man.
The Deerslayer Illustrated
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path (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 of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking Tales.
Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels
Author: Geoffrey RansPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807857472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels: A Secular Reading
The Pathfinder Annotated
Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and is considered as forming the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales.