James Fenimore: 683 books

Extrait : Aucun Américain ne peut ignorer les principaux événements qui portèrent le parlement de la Grande-Bretagne, en 1774, à frapper le port de Boston de ces restrictions impolitiques qui détruisirent si complètement le commerce de la principale ville de ses colonies occidentales....

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The plan of this tale suggested itself to the writer many years since, though tbe details are altogether of recent in-vention. The idea of associating seamen and savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic...

The author has often been asked if there were any foundation in real life for the delineation of the principal character in this book. He can give no clearer answer to the question than by laying before his readers a simple statement of the facts connected with its original publication.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not man the less, but nature more, From these...

The Last of the Mohicans was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time. The story is set in 1757 during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. During this war, the French often allied themselves with...

The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, and during the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They meet the trapper (Natty Bumppo), who...

The most popular and memorable of the "Leatherstocking Tales": set in the rugged wilderness of upper New York State during the brutal French and Indian War, it tells the story of the Munro sisters, daughters of a commander in the British army. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A...

Corre el año 1757 y Francia e Inglaterra se disputan el territorio de los Grandes Lagos. El coronel Munro acompañado de sus hijas Alicia y Cora, el mayor Duncan Heyward, un guía indio llamado Magua y David Gamut, maestro de música, abandona el fuerte británico Edward camino hacia el de William...

John Grisham is one of the most successful American authors of our time. He has become world-famous for his extensive list of fictional legal thrillers that keep readers on the edge of their seats and always wanting more. He is one of only three authors (along with Tom Clancy and J.K. Rowling) to...

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait : MALGRÉ un usage depuis longtemps établi, nous avions passé un été enfermés dans les murs d’une grande ville ; mais le moment de la liberté arriva, et les oiseaux n’ont pas plus de plaisir...

Several hundred years ago the Portuguese Empire stretched from South America all the way to parts of Asia. As a result many countries in the world today incorporate Portuguese into their official national language. Cape Verde, Angola, and Brazil all speak a dialect of Portuguese that is closely related...

Well written development of a seafaring youth in the new United States, and of course not lacking a love story.