Craig White – författare

The Student Companion to James Fenimore Cooper At the dawn of America's continental empire, James Fenimore Cooper in the early 1800s became the new nation's first major novelist, inaugurating a great period in American literature and bequeathing a number of classic texts including the Leather-Stocking Tales. This Companion to Cooper's writings appeals to high school and college students by outlining Cooper's most frequently assigned novels and establishing their historical backgrounds concerning American Indians and the early United States. Two opening chapters review the author's life and accomplishments, and another offers tips for managing Cooper's style and subject matter. Cooper's breakthrough novel The Spy (1821), which features George Washington as a major actor, has a chapter of its own. The second half of the Companion highlights the Leather-Stocking Tales, with one chapter on the overall saga and five chapters devoted to the individual novels in the series: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie. Altogether this Companion shares the spirit of adventure that made Cooper a pioneer of American Romantic literature and his writings a perennial source for ideas and images of Native America, the frontier, and the early modern USA.

The hardest decision Craig ever made was ending the life of the one who never left his side. For fourteen years, Sydney followed Craig into every version of his life. When Sydney's life began to fade, he was forced into a role no one prepares you for: to comfort her, to carry her, and ultimately to decide for her. What followed wasn't just grief. It was guilt, doubt, and questions without answers. But loving her through her final day forced him to confront what love really is, and what it costs to let go. It is an apology, a thank you, a goodbye, and an honest account of what it means to be trusted with a life you never wanted to end.This book is for anyone who has ever loved something so deeply they're still not sure how to keep going without it.