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James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune.
James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art (Papers from the 1979 Conference at State University College of New York, Oneonta and Cooperstown). pp. 11– 39. Rans, Geoffrey (1991). Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels: A Secular Reading. University of North Carolina Press. White, Craig (2006). Student Companion to James Fenimore Cooper.
Later on, Cooper conducted an experiment with one of his family members and messmate. Cooper read a large portion of the first chapter to them with an unexpected response. The messmate gave a strong satisfaction to the book, praising the details and work put into it. Cooper had undertaken to surpass Walter Scott's Pirate (1821) in seamanship.
James Fenimore Cooper's The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish: A Tale is a historical novel set during King Philip's War, and was first published on November 6, 1829. [3] [4]With the success of his novel The Red Rover, a London publisher proposed a total of $600 for each of two tales, one an American tale and the other a sea story (The Water Witch). [5]
The Red Rover is a novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. It was originally published in Paris on November 27, 1827, [ 1 ] before being published in London three days later on November 30. It was not published in the United States until January 9, 1828, in Philadelphia.
Precaution was written in imitation of contemporary English domestic novels like those of Jane Austen and Amelia Opie, and it did not meet with contemporary success. [1] It did, however, make Cooper realize his potential as a writer. [5] The author went on to have great success with works such as The Pathfinder (1841) and The Deerslayer (1840).
The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers is an 1849 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper.The plot revolves around two sealers stranded in the Antarctic ice. [1] The novel was first published in two volumes, by Stringer & Townsend. [2]
The Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines – A Story of the Rhine is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1832.The novel is a socio-political novel set in 16th-century Germany that focuses on the competition between various socio-political classes and the tension caused by the Reformation.