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The pioneers
Natty Bumppo, now on the threshold of old age, finds his way of life challenged as the land he has roamed becomes private property and the laws of man supplant the laws of nature.
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The Sea Lions
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
undergoes a spiritual transformation amidst the sublime threat of
hostile Nature. The editors argue that this transformation
parallels Cooper's gradual shift from a religion of Nature to his
embracing Trinitarian Christianity. In expanding the scope of his
sea fiction to embrace spiritual questions, Cooper anticipates
Melville, who reviewed the novel favorably. This scholarly edition,
the thirtieth in The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
series, presents an accurate text that draws upon both the American
first edition and the British first edition, for which the editors
have determined Cooper provided some revisions not found in his
American text. The edition provides extensive historical, cultural,
and geographic explanatory notes. The editors also provide a full
scholarly apparatus discussing their editorial choices, and the
edition has been approved by scholarly peers in the Committee for
Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.
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Home as Found
Within months of publishing Homeward Bound , James Fenimore
Cooper continued that story in a second, stand-alone novel,
Home as Found . One of the most important of his long
career, Home as Found is a novel of manners in which
Cooper satirized Wall Street speculation, jingoism, the penny
press, and high society, writing boisterously and with a sharp but
critical eye about a nation in transition. He revealed \"follies and
peculiarities\" of the young nation, but did so with a hope that the
advancing forces of democracy would not get turned aside by greed
and insular nationalism. In drawing rooms, ballrooms, and Wall
Street offices, Cooper sees clearly into the heart of the
democratic experiment, dramatizing conflicts that we are still
grappling with nearly two hundred years later. Stephen Carl Arch
provides a historical introduction discussing Cooper's composition
of the novel and its politicized reception in journals and
newspapers, along with detailed explanatory notes. This
authoritative edition draws upon the first edition, a partial
author's manuscript, and a substantial (but not complete)
amanuensis copy of the author's manuscript; and provides a full
scholarly apparatus discussing the editorial choices. It has been
approved by the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern
Language Association. The Writings of James Fenimore
Cooper The distinguished Cooper scholar James Franklin
Beard (1919-1989) began organizing the Writings of James Fenimore
Cooper in the late 1960s, as his work on publishing the monumental
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper came to fulfillment.
Beard's intention was to provide readers with sound scholarly
editions of Cooper's major works, based wherever possible on
authorial manuscripts. To date, the Writings of James Fenimore
Cooper has made available texts of many of Cooper's best-known
novels, as well as some of his most important works of political
and social commentary.
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آخر هندي موهيكان
إنها قصة للأطفال وهى عين الصقر، خلال الحرب بين إنكلترا وفرنسا في أميركا، الذي قرر التوجه إلى البراري متخليا عن العالم المتحضر آنذاك للعيش مع آخر شخص من قبيلة المحاربين الأشداء الموهيكان. عالم الروائع الأدبية الكلاسيكية للصغار. نص مبسط ورسومات جميلة و D.V.D. (صحن مدمج) للرسوم المتحركة لـ (آخر هندي موهيكان)
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The Redskins
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 includes Cooper's enduring theme of Indigenous-White
relations but examines it in the context of contemporary tensions
between wealthy landlords and their tenant farmers in the Hudson
Valley region. The work is narrated in the voice of a privileged
landowner who presents an impassioned defense of the aristocratic
class in America and thus raises cardinal questions regarding
Cooper's own intentions and authorial control. Cooper himself was
often derided as an \"aristocrat\" in this later phase of his career,
and the novel can be read as both an endorsement of and a rebuttal
to that judgment. Edited by Hugh Egan, this volume includes
extensive historical background material as well as pertinent
textual notes based on the original manuscript. As part of the
series in the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, this MLA-approved
edition of The Redskins will serve as the definitive text
for future teachers and scholars alike. The Writings of
James Fenimore Cooper The distinguished Cooper scholar
James Franklin Beard (1919-1989) began organizing the Writings of
James Fenimore Cooper in the late 1960s, as his work on publishing
the monumental Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper came
to fulfillment. Beard's intention was to provide readers with sound
scholarly editions of Cooper's major works, based wherever possible
on authorial manuscripts. To date, the Writings of James Fenimore
Cooper has made available texts of many of Cooper's best-known
novels, as well as some of his most important works of political
and social commentary.
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The Spy
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 American historical romance, a novel and a
genre that quickly put to rest the British critic Sydney Smith's
1820 quip, \"In the four corners of the globe, who reads an American
novel?\" Beginning with The Spy , everyone did. The novel
excited readers with the perilous adventures of the spy (Harvey
Birch, the Yankee peddler) and his contact Mr. Harper (George
Washington appearing incognito), both surfacing repeatedly in
various disguises and engaged in counterespionage (very clearly a
parallel to the John Andre and Benedict Arnold stories) with their
guerilla nemeses, the loyalist Cow-Boys and renegade Skinners.
The Spy revealed the clash of loyalties within families
between public and private duty to country and to self, and served
as a microcosm of the new American world, staged in the \"neutral
ground\" between opposing forces in Westchester, New York. William
Gilmore Simms, Cooper's admirer and imitator, declared \"The
publication of The Spy … was an event,\" while Boston's
North American Review agreed, \"the American Revolution is
an admirable basis, on which to found fictions of the highest order
of romantic interest.\" This fresh tale generated good American
press for the young Cooper, and so set the stage for Cooper's
career-long contributions to the development of the American novel.
The editors provide a historical introduction identifying Cooper's
sources, as well as detailed explanatory notes to enable readers
fully to appreciate the geographical and historical settings in the
novel. This scholarly edition, the eighteenth in \"The Writings of
James Fenimore Cooper,\" presents an accurate text drawing upon
eight texts, from the first edition (with two editorially revised
reprintings soon following to satisfy public demand) through the
heavily revised Bentley Standard Novels edition (1831) and the more
lightly revised Putnam Author's edition (1849). The editors provide
a full scholarly apparatus discussing their editorial choices, and
the edition has been approved by scholarly peers in the Committee
for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.
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آخر الموهيكانز
تناول الكتاب أنه بعد أن عمد مرشدهما، ماجوا، إلى تضليلهما، تلجأ ابنتا أحد الجنرالات الإنجليز إلى رجل يسكن الغابات ورجلين من قبيلة الموهيكان ليرشدوهما عبر البراري الممتدة على الحدود الأمريكية. لكن ماجوا كان يخطط لأمور أخرى، انتقامًا من أبيهما الذي أهانه من قبل. تحفل هذه القصة المثيرة، التي تذخر بمواقف البسالة والخيانة وسعي رجل واحد للانتقام، بأحداث معارك دامية وعمليات خطف ومحاولات هرب محفوفة بالمخاطر.
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The Wing-and-Wing, Or Le Feu-Follet
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 Lord Nelson are thwarted in their attempt to capture the
French privateer Raoul Yvard and his graceful lugger Le
Feu-Follet , while Yvard himself is frustrated because the
Italian girl he loves, loyal to the Church, refuses to marry a
French deist. Cooper also worked into his story one of his most
colorful Yankee characters, Ithuel Bolt, an impressed seaman who
combines courage and righteousness with bitterness and greedy
self-interest. What sets The Wing-And-Wing apart from
Cooper's other maritime adventures is the setting: most of the
action occurs in the genial Italian waters of the Bay of Naples and
Gulf of Salerno, locations Cooper had visited in 1829-30 and later
recalled as \"the only region of the earth that I truly love.\" He
combined the struggle for naval dominance just beginning between
France and England with historical events occurring in the Kingdom
of Naples, especially the role reluctantly played by Nelson,
pressured by his lover Lady Hamilton, in the execution of the
Neapolitan hero Admiral Caraccioli. The editors provide a
historical introduction identifying Cooper's Italian sources as
well as detailed explanatory notes to enable readers fully to
appreciate the geographical and historical settings in the novel.
This scholarly edition, the twenty-seventh in the Writings of James
Fenimore Cooper, presents an accurate text drawing upon both the
first edition and a lightly revised authorial text from 1850. The
editors provide a full scholarly apparatus discussing their
editorial choices, and the edition has been approved by scholarly
peers in the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern
Language Association.
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