James Fenimore Cooper was a 19th century writer known for his historical romances and stories of the sea. His Leatherstocking tales including the novel The Last of the Mohicans are his best-known works. This classic story Natty Bumppo also known as The Deerslayer is the story of his days as a young hunter among the Delaware Indians. It is a rousing story of warfare between the Indians and the white settlers around Lake Otsego before 1745. "The Last of the Mohicans" is the sequel.

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James Fenimore Cooper was a 19th century writer known for his historical romances and stories of the sea. His Leatherstocking tales including the novel The Last of the Mohicans are his best-known works. He also wrote Precaution (1820), The Spy (1821), The Pioneers (1823), The Red Rover (1828), The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (1829), The Notions of a Traveling Bachelor (1828), The Waterwitch (1830), The Bravo (1831), The Monikins (1835), The American Democrat (1835), Homeward Bound (1839), Home as Found (1838), and A History of the Navy of the United States (1839). Massachusetts, Connecticut and...

Der Roman Der Bravo ist im Jahre 1831 whrend der Reise nach Europa erschienen, die Cooper mit seiner Familie von 1826 bis 1833 unternommen hat. Im Roman handelt es sich um die feudalistische Vergangenheit Venedigs. Die Geschichte fngt mit dem romantischen Sonnenuntergang in den Tiroler Alpen an. Doch ihre weitere Entwicklung nimmt eine unerwartete Wendung.

Die fantastische Geschichte der Brigantine "Die Wassernixe" wurde im Jahre 1830 veroffentlicht. Dieser Seefahrtsroman ist im Long Island Sound (eine Forde im Westen des Atlantiks) des 17. Jahrhunderts angesiedelt. Doch da Cooper diese Geschichte in Sorrent niederschrieb, wirkt ihre Atmosphare uberraschend mediterran.

Als der junge Offizier Heyward die beiden Töchter des Kommandanten ins Fort bringen soll, wird er von dem Waldläufer Natty Bumppo und dessen Freund Chingachgook vor einem Hinterhalt gewarnt. So gelangen sie sicher zum Fort, doch dann werden die Mädchen von Huronen entführt.

The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel, it is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy. The story takes place in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of the North American colonies and the French called on allied Native American tribes to fight against the British soldiers.