James Fenimore Cooper

Set in 1793 and 1794, The Pioneers tracks the changes of a small town called Templeton, built on the advancing frontier of New York. Natty Bumppo, a hero raised by Native Americans, lives in a cabin, secluded in a forest near Templeton. As the Christmas Eve snow falls, Natty, more commonly known as Leatherstocking, embarks on a tense hunt for a deer. As he tracks the deer down, he runs into Judge Marmaduke Temple, the man who founded the town of Temple....

As tension begins to grow in America during the revolution, Mr. Wharton, a British sympathizer, moves his family to his county estate named "The Locusts," with the intention to avoid any political conflict. Located in Westchester County, New York, the area was considered a common ground for patriots and loyalists. However, action starts to stir in the neutral town when an enigmatic man shows up at Mr. Wharton's home. Hoping for shelter from the severe...

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...

Unique Elements • Historical Context: About the Author • Historical Context: Timeline • Commentaries • The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers, is an adventure sea tale from the well-known American author JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851), best known as the author of the Leatherstocking Tales. The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers, is a historical novel by American author JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, published in 1849 in the UNITED STATES....

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.

In the dead of night Hutter and March sneak into the camp of the besieging members of the Huron tribe in order to kill and scalp as many as they can. Their plan fails, and Tom Hutter and March are captured. They are later ransomed by Bumppo, his lifelong friend Chingachgook, and Hutter's daughters, Judith and Hetty.

The Bravo (1831) takes place in early eighteenth-century Venice, when the "Serene Republic" had lost much of its glory, leaving its oligarchs struggling to hold on to their family wealth by manipulating the government and people through secret councils and a figure-head doge. In 1844, Cooper called it "in spirit, the most American book I ever wrote" because of its depiction of the masses duped by demagoguery and the attempts of Congress to rein in...

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 ! EXTRAIT Les étrangers étaient au nombre de trois, car c'étaient...

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,...

Im Nordamerika des 18. Jahrhunderts, zwischen den endlosen Wäldern der Ostküste und den weiten Prärien, entfaltet sich ein epischer Konflikt um die Zukunft eines Kontinents. Inmitten dieser Umbruchszeit steht ein außergewöhnlicher Mann. Natty Bumppo, genannt Lederstrumpf, ist die legendäre Hauptfigur in James Fenimore Coopers monumentalem Romanzyklus. An seiner Seite kämpft der edle Häuptling Chingachgook, der "letzte Mohikaner". In fünf...