James Fenimore Cooper
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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...
4) The Bravo
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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...
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Published in 1838, this novel continues and completes the adventures begun in Homeward Bound, published earlier the same year. The novel begins with the much-delayed return of the Effingham family to Manhattan. Cooper satirizes his fellow countrymen, contrasting them unfavorably with the sophistication acquired by the Effinghams through their European associations.
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James Fenimore Cooper returns to the sea in this rollicking, mysterious adventure, introducing close friends Vice Admiral Sir Gervaise Oakes and Rear Admiral Richard Bluewater as their fleet alights on the southern coast of England. Cooper's sea-faring talents are at their peak in this fascinating story of strained loyalties, intrigue, and heroism.
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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,...
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Der Pfadfinder James Fenimore Cooper - Charles Cap ist zusammen mit seiner Nichte Mabel Dunham auf dem Weg ins Fort Oswego, wo Mabels Vater als Sergeant arbeitet. Sie werden von dem indianischen Scout Arrowhead und seiner Frau June begleitet. Im Wald trifft die Gruppe auf den Waldläufer Natty Bumppo, genannt Pfadfinder, den Mohikaner Chingachgook und den Binnenkapitän Jasper Western James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller...
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In Jack Tier, Cooper crafts a sea-faring adventure set just after the end of the 1846 Mexican War, when peace had only very recently been settled. The novel was originally serialized in Graham's Magazine, and tells a fresh, rollicking story about the fluidity of identity.
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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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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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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 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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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...
16) 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.
17) 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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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 !
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Les étrangers étaient au nombre de trois, car c'étaient...
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The frontier of New York State is advancing rapidly. The story begins with an argument between the Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton and Natty Bumpo over who killed a buck. Leatherstocking and his closest friend, the Mohican Indian Chingachgook, begin to compete with the Temples for the loyalties of a mysterious young hunter known as Oliver Edwards, who eventually marries Elizabeth.
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A thrilling novel of seafaring adventure, romance, and Napoleonic history, from the author of The Leatherstocking Tales.
In 1842, James Fenimore Cooper returned to transatlantic themes with a thrilling historical novel set in the Mediterranean Sea, weaving together a characteristically exciting narrative of naval pursuit with a story of lovers separated by religious differences. As the novel unfolds, warships under the command of the recently ennobled...
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