James Fenimore: 683 books

EXTRAIT: C’EST dans une époque reculée des annales américaines qu’il faut chercher les incidents sur lesquels se fonde cette histoire. Un demi-siècle s’était écoulé depuis qu’une colonie d’Anglais pieux et dévoués, fuyant...

Lederstrumpf ist ein Romanzyklus des amerikanischen Schriftstellers James Fenimore Cooper. Seine fünf "Lederstrumpf"-Romane thematisieren die Erschließung des amerikanischen Westens durch weiße Scouts, Trapper und Siedler, aber auch die allmähliche Zurückdrängung und Vernichtung der...

In spite of the fact that he is the author of many quintessentially American novels, including The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper spent a significant portion of his life in France, where he moved his family in the hopes of boosting his writing income. This volume of essays focuses on Cooper's impressions of and experiences in Europe.

Gehen Sie an Bord eines Schiffes, das durch die schönsten Romane und Geschichten über die berühmtesten Seeabenteurer segelt und machen Sie sich mit den bekanntesten mächenhaften Seefahrten der Welt vertraut. Inhalt: Die geheimnisvolle Insel (Jules Verne) Ein Kapitän von 15 Jahren (Jules Verne)...

Dieses eBook ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Die geheimnisvolle Insel (Jules Verne) 20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer (Jules Verne) Moby Dick (Herman Melville) Benito Cereno (Herman Melville) Gullivers Reisen (Jonathan...

A "Great American Novel" is a novel which is of high literary merit and shows the culture of the United States at a specific time in its history. It is presumably written by an American author who is knowledgeable about the state, culture, and perspective of the common American citizen. At one time,...

Diese Sammlung der spannenden Piratengeschichten führt Sie in die mystische Welt der berüchtigten Piraten und verborgenen Schätze ein: Die Schatzinsel (Robert Louis Stevenson) Der rote Freibeuter (James Fenimore Cooper) Die Abenteuer David Balfours: Entführt & Catriona (Robert Louis Stevenson)...

American author James Fenimore Cooper achieved widespread literary acclaim with his sweeping epics that often sought to pin down the nascent country's emerging and evolving ethos. In the novel The Chainbearer, which is the second entry in his Littlepage trilogy, Cooper focuses on the displacement of Native American populations that occurred as a result of westward expansion.

Illus. in black-and-white. This action-packed edition of James Fenimore Cooper's famous adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French and Indian War to vivid life.

The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo. His fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as "the trapper" or "the old man." Chronologically The Prairie is the...

CONTENTS A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Bel Ami, Or, the History of a Scoundrel by Guy de Maupassant House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson The Last of the Mohicans;...

Set on the Great Plains during the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific coast, The Prairie is the third of James Fenimore Cooper’s novels to feature Natty Bumppo, the famous Hawkeye. Now in his eighties, Bumppo has left New York for the untouched expanses of the frontier. There...

Wayne Franklin’s introduction to The Pathfinder describes the personal and financial circumstances that led James Fenimore Cooper to the resurrection of his most popular character, underscoring the author’s aim to offer Natty Bumppo as a “Pathfinder” for a nation he feared had lost its moral bearings.

The Bravo is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1831 in three volumes. Inspired by a trip to Europe where he traveled through much of Italy, the novel is set in Venice. The Bravo is the first of Cooper's three novels to be set in Europe. This group of three novels, which one...