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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.
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is an 1826 historical romance novel by James Fenimore Cooper.It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. [2]
Pages in category "Novels by James Fenimore Cooper" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is a historical novel by American author James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel Cooper wrote featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales. The inland sea of the title is Lake Ontario.
The "keen-eyed critic of the ocean": James Fenimore Cooper's Invention of the Sea Novel, by Luis Iglesias at the Cooper Panel of the 2006 Conference of the American Literature Association in San Francisco. Carl Van Doren (1920). "Pilot, The" . In Rines, George Edwin (ed.). Encyclopedia Americana. The Pilot, or A Tale of the Sea – ESAT. (2021 ...
The brunt of Mark Twain's satire and criticism of Cooper's writing, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" (1895), fell on The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder.Twain wrote at the beginning of the essay: "In one place in Deerslayer, and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115.
The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is an 1823 historical novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. It was the first of five novels published which became known as the Leatherstocking Tales. The Pioneers is the fourth novel in terms of the chronology of the novels' plots.
Lionel Lincoln is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1825.Set in the American Revolutionary War, the novel follows Lionel Lincoln, a Boston-born American of British noble descent who goes to England and returns a British soldier, and is forced to deal with the split loyalties in his family and friends to the American colonies and the British homeland.