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Gleanings in Europe
Switzerland
Häftad, 1983
525 kr
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In the summer of 1828 James Fenimore Cooper, his wife, and their five children set out from Paris for Switzerland, and Cooper wrote that he experienced a "glorious anticipation," for "a common-place converse with men was about to give place to a sublime communion with Nature."Sketches of …
Pioneers or the Sources of the Susquehanna
A Descriptive Tale
Häftad, 1980
579 kr
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Written in 1821-22 at a crucial point in Cooper's life and based on some of his most cherished youthful memories, The Pioneers today evokes the American pioneering experience with astonishing vibrance of authentic detail and a largeness of philosophic grasp seldom if ever equaled in our fiction.The …
Gleanings in Europe
England
Häftad, 1983
525 kr
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A contemporaneous reviewer called James Fenimore Cooper's England "unquestionably the most searching and thoughtful, not TO say philosophical of any" of the books "published by an American on England." Another cited with approval the "potent causticity" with which a fellow reviewer "develope[d] the …
Gleanings in Europe
Italy
Häftad, 1983
543 kr
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Describing Italy as "the only region of the earth that I truly love," James Fenimore Cooper used the style of picturesque impressionism to convey his vision of Italy as the microcosm of an ordered and a beautiful world.In theory, the picturesque style of writing could produce verbal sketches that …
Wyandotte, or the Hutted Knoll
A Tale
Av James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Philbrick m. fl.
Häftad, 1981
579 kr
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"One of the misfortunes of a nation, is to hear little besides its own praises," wrote James Fenimore Cooper in his Preface to Wyandotté in 1843. The novel arrived at a time when a patriotic mythology about the American Revolution was developing, and Cooper's somber tale of the sufferings of an …
Prairie: A Tale
Häftad, 1985
607 kr
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In the spring of 1826, soon after the publication of The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper immersed himself in The Prairie. In taking Natty Bumppo from his beloved forests of New York state to the Great American Plains, Cooper was in part fulfilling his own prophecy at the end of The …
Gleanings in Europe
The Rhine
Häftad, 1983
636 kr
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Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine is an account of James Fenimore Cooper's travels in Europe at the time of the 1832 revolt in Paris, when he hoped General Lafayette would be declared President of France and when all of Europe was the stage for the morality play of French politics.Published in 1836 …
Satanstoe, or the Littlepage Manuscripts
A Tale of the Colony
Häftad, 1990
607 kr
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Though Satanstoe has been too much neglected by readers of Cooper's time and ours, it is one of his most interesting books, combining nostalgic autobiographical recollections, pictures of manners, action and adventure, and social philosophy in one of the author's happiest experiments in fiction. …
Wing-and-Wing, Or Le Feu-Follet
A Tale
Häftad, 2020
607 kr
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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 …
Spy
A Tale of the Neutral Ground
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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An exciting Revolutionary War tale of double agents and counterespionage in New York State in 1780.A year after his imitative first novel Precaution (1820) enjoyed only modest success, James Fenimore Cooper penned The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, a Revolutionary War narrative initiating the …
Chainbearer
Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts
Av James Fenimore Cooper, Lance Schachterle m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
566 kr
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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 …
Water-Witch
Or, The Skimmer of the Seas
Av James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Philbrick m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
604 kr
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An exciting tale of nautical adventure on the waters of colonial New York Harbor.Chiefly set on the waters and islands of New York Harbor in the early years of the 1700s, James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Water-Witch (1830) paints a vivid picture of life in the little colonial port. It was familiar …
Home as Found
Häftad, 2023
598 kr
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A novel of manners set in the drawing rooms, ballrooms, and Wall Street offices in 1830s New York, dramatizing conflicts that we are still grappling with nearly two hundred years later.Within months of publishing Homeward Bound, James Fenimore Cooper continued that story in a second, stand-alone …
Home as Found
Inbunden, 2022
1278 kr
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A novel of manners set in the drawing rooms, ballrooms, and Wall Street offices in 1830s New York, dramatizing conflicts that we are still grappling with nearly two hundred years later.Within months of publishing Homeward Bound, James Fenimore Cooper continued that story in a second, stand-alone …
Sea Lions
Or, The Lost Sealers
Inbunden, 2023
1250 kr
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An exciting adventure tale of sealers caught in the Antarctic ice in the early nineteenth century and forced to winter over in extreme conditions.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 …
Sea Lions
Or, The Lost Sealers
Häftad, 2023
579 kr
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An exciting adventure tale of sealers caught in the Antarctic ice in the early nineteenth century and forced to winter over in extreme conditions.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 …
Bravo
A Venetian Story
Av James Fenimore Cooper, Lance Schachterle m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
607 kr
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A novel of early eighteenth-century Venice that Cooper called "in spirit, the most American book I ever wrote."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 …
Redskins
Inbunden, 2024
1278 kr
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Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, now available in a scholarly edition.The Redskins, James Fenimore Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, is now available in a scholarly edition. The final work in the "Littlepage trilogy," The Redskins …
Redskins
Häftad, 2025
500 kr
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Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, now available in a scholarly edition.The Redskins, James Fenimore Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, is now available in a scholarly edition. The final work in the "Littlepage trilogy," The Redskins …
Red Rover
A Tale
Av James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Philbrick m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
1250 kr
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Turning to his own extensive maritime experience, Cooper's novel, written in Paris in 1827, reflects his immersion in the romantic movement that was sweeping the Continent. European readers enjoyed his poetic and imaginative portrayal of the sea, while American readers were interested in how he …
Red Rover
A Tale
Av James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Philbrick m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
534 kr
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Turning to his own extensive maritime experience, Cooper's novel, written in Paris in 1827, reflects his immersion in the romantic movement that was sweeping the Continent. European readers enjoyed his poetic and imaginative portrayal of the sea, while American readers were interested in how he …
Notions of the Americans
Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor
Inbunden, 1991
1198 kr
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Notions of the Americans in considered Cooper's first work of non-fiction despite a thin overlay of character and plot. Written in the form of a travel narrative, it addresses the widespread ignorance he encountered in Europe about the people and institutions of the United States. It is an …
Notions of the Americans
Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor
Häftad, 1991
572 kr
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Notions of the Americans in considered Cooper's first work of non-fiction despite a thin overlay of character and plot. Written in the form of a travel narrative, it addresses the widespread ignorance he encountered in Europe about the people and institutions of the United States. It is an …
Gleanings in Europe
The Rhine
Inbunden, 1986
1172 kr
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Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine is an account of James Fenimore Cooper's travels in Europe at the time of the 1832 revolt in Paris, when he hoped General Lafayette would be declared President of France and when all of Europe was the stage for the morality play of French politics.Published in 1836 …
Gleanings in Europe
England
Inbunden, 1981
1172 kr
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A contemporaneous reviewer called James Fenimore Cooper's England "unquestionably the most searching and thoughtful, not TO say philosophical of any" of the books "published by an American on England." Another cited with approval the "potent causticity" with which a fellow reviewer "develope[d] the …
Gleanings in Europe
France
Inbunden, 1983
1198 kr
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France (1837) was the third volume published in Cooper's Gleanings in Europe series, but first in the chronology of his European experience. Less sequential than his other travel narratives, France distills his impressions of French and European culture during his first two years abroad. Exhibiting …
Wyandotte, or the Hutted Knoll
A Tale
Av James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Philbrick m. fl.
Inbunden, 1981
1278 kr
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"One of the misfortunes of a nation, is to hear little besides its own praises," wrote James Fenimore Cooper in his Preface to Wyandotté in 1843. The novel arrived at a time when a patriotic mythology about the American Revolution was developing, and Cooper's somber tale of the sufferings of an …
Pilot
Inbunden, 1986
1278 kr
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Having drawn on local knowledge and private information for The Spy and on his own boyhood experiences for The Pioneers, it was inevitable that Cooper would seek a way to convert yet another area of his special knowledge into art. His first choice of career had been the U.S. Navy, in which he …
Lionel Lincoln: or, The Leaguer of Boston
Inbunden, 1985
1250 kr
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Written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the beginnings of the American Revolution, Lionel Lincoln was a radically new experiment in historical fiction. To recreate its events with the utmost accuracy, Cooper visited Boston in person in 1824 to study buildings and terrain, examine …
Last of the Mohicans
Häftad, 1983
502 kr
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Celebrated for almost 150 years as the prototype of the American adventure story, The Last of the Mohicans remains a perennial favorite, an astonishingly complex work to be read on many levels. Irradiated by an elusive irony that gives epic scope to the American colonial experience, it projects on …
