The Deerslayer (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Cooper, James Fenimore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853265527 ISBN 13: 9781853265525

Verlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2005

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The Deerslayer (Wordsworth Classics). James Fenimore Cooper. Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1995

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The Deerslayer is the culmination of James Fenimore Cooper's `Leather-Stocking' novels, featuring Natty Bumppo (the deer-slaying young frontiersman) and the Mohican chief, Chingachgook. Cooper portrays the hubris of the conquest of a vast territory. The action takes place during the American wars of the 1740s. Natty and his friend Harry attempt to save a trapper and two young women, whose floating fort on Lake Glimmerglass is besieged by the ruthless Iroquois. The tension steadily increases to the point at which a cruel outcome seems inevitable. The exciting action, the romantic potentialities and the knowledgeable evocation of frontier life (with its moral and racial conflicts) have made this novel a perennial favourite. The courageous Natty, with his problematic values, has set the precedent for countless American heroes. Culturally, The Deerslayer has proved to be a powerfully influential work.

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The Deerslayer is the last-written of Cooper's Leatherstocking tales, but the first in the development of the hero, Natty Bumppo. Here Cooper returns Leatherstocking to his youth and to a pristine wilderness that D.H. Lawrence said was perhaps 'lovelier than any place created in language'.

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• Verlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1853265527
• ISBN 13: 9781853265525
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464