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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 where ships were the main characters, though eventually decided not to....
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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...
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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...
6) The Lake Gun
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"The Lake Gun" is a satirical short story by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1850. The short story was commissioned by George E. Wood for $100, and published in a miscellany titled The Parthenon. It was reprinted in Specimens of American Literature in New York in 1866. The short story satirizes political demagoguery, focused on William Henry Seward.
The story was reprinted in 1932 by publisher William Farquhar Payson in a limited edition...
7) 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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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...
10) 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.
11) The Oak Openings
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The Oak Opening; or, The Bee Hunter 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 has a significant religious thematic focus. From Wikipedia...
12) 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.
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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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Cooper's hypothetical European observer has traveled to the United States for the first time and wants to relate his impressions of the Americans those back home. In volume two "Cooper" visits Washington D.C. and relates his first impressions of the capitol. He focuses on the physical looks, etiquette, what he learns of America's wars, education, language, elections, religion, and many other aspects of American life.
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The Last of the Mohicans is an epic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time, and helped establish Cooper as one of the first world-famous American writers. The story takes place in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. During this war, the French often allied themselves...
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The Pathfinder shows Natty at his old trick of guiding tender damsels through the dangerous woods, and the siege at the blockhouse and the storm on Lake Ontario are considerably like other of Cooper's sieges and storms. Natty, in this novel commonly called La Longue Carabine, keeps in a hardy middle age his simple and honest nature, which is severely tested by his love for a young girl. She is a conventional heroine of romance. A certain soft amiability...
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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...
19) Satanstoe
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The first book in Cooper's Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy vividly captures "old New York" from the vantage point of one of its earliest families of settlers. This romance follows Cornelius "Corny" Littlepage as he travels from his home on Long Island Sound to nascent Manhattan and into the wilds of the territory, all along sharing his observations of country versus city.
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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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