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Excursions In Italy by James Fenimore Cooper
Category: Travel | Series: Addison's Travel Library
Excursions in Italy was Cooper's fifth in a series of travel narratives and his tribute to the Italian way of life. His account is exciting and affectionate.
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between t ...Show more
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper; Donald Pease (Introduction by, Editor); Donald E. Pease (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Leatherstocking Tale Ser.
Natty Bumppo , one of the greatest heroes in American literature, is the rugged frontiersman of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels that includes The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer. Although it was the final volume to be written, The Deerslayer is the first in ...Show more
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Deerslayer is the culmination of James Fenimore Cooper's 'Leather-Stocking' novels, featuring Natty Bumppo (the deer-slaying young frontiersman) and the Mohican chief, Chingachgook. Cooper portrays the hubris of the conquest of a vast territory. The action takes place during the American wars of the ...Show more
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Category: Classics
At the centre of the novel is the celebrated 'Massacre' of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality, and heroism, in which the destiny of the Mohican Chingachgook ...Show more
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Category: Children's Classics
A gorgeously crafted edition of a great American classic--James Fenimore Cooper's epic tale of frontier life during the French and Indian War, complete with lush tip-in illustrations. Chingachgook and Uncas are the last living members of the great Mohican tribe. Hawkeye, a colonial scout, is their compa ...Show more
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, ...Show more
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Category: Classics
James Fenimore Cooper s classic American story of life on the frontier during the French and Indian War. "The Last of the Mohicans," one of the world s great adventure stories, dramatizes how the birth of American culture was intertwined with that of Native Americans. In 1757, as the English and the Fr ...Show more
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Category: Classics
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 India ...Show more
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
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