DEERSLAYER (Classics) - Softcover

COOPER, JAMES FENIMO

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451529391 ISBN 13: 9780451529398

Verlag: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE USA EX, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Cooper James Fenimore

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Reseña del editor

The first of the five Leatherstocking tales recalls Natty Bumpo's adventures as a young man among the Delaware Indians of New York State where he must engage in tribal warfare, forcing him to kill the enemy and face a new kind of danger. Reissue.

Biografía del autor

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) grew up at Otsego Hall, his father’s manorial estate near Lake Otsego in upstate New York. Educated at Yale, he spent five years at sea, as a foremast hand and then as a midshipman in the navy. At thirty he was suddenly plunged into a literary career when his wife challenged his claim that he could write a better book that the English novel he was reading to her. The result was Precaution (1820), a novel of manners. His second book, The Spy (1821), was an immediate success, and with The Pioneers (1823) he began his series of Leatherstocking Tales. By 1826 when The Last of the Mohicans appeared, his standing as a major novelist was clearly established. From 1826 to 1833 Cooper and his family lived and traveled in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. Two of his most successful works, The Prairie and The Red Rover, were published in 1827. He returned to Otsego Hall in 1834, and after a series of relatively unsuccessful books of essays, travel sketches, and history, he returned to fiction – and to Leatherstocking – with The Pathfinder (1840) and The Deerslayer (1841). In his last decade he faced declining popularity brought on in part by his waspish attacks on critics and political opponents. Just before his death in 1851 an edition of his works led to a reappraisal of his fiction and somewhat restored his reputation as the first of American writers.

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• Verlag: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE USA EX
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0451529391
• ISBN 13: 9780451529398
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 560