The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers is an 1849 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The plot revolves around two sealers stranded in amongst Antarctic ice.The novel was first published in two volumes, by Stringer & Townsend.Critic W.B. Gates described the novel as taking inspiration from Charles Wilkes's Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition of the Years 1838-1842. Herman Melville reviewed the novel in 1849 for the magazine The Literary World.Melville's praise for the novel focuses on the action and adventure of the novel, saying, "Upon the whole, we warmly recommend the Sea...

The headsman; or, The Abbaye des Vignerons. A tale, Complete set volume 1 and 2 ( novel ) The Headsman: The Abbaye des Vignerons is an 1833 novel by James Fenimore Cooper set in Switzerland.The novel was inspired by one of Cooper's trips during his European travels in 1832.The novel is one of three of Cooper's "European" novels, following The Bravo and The Heidenmauer, all of which use the European setting to deal with socio-political contrast with American institutions.Themes--The novel explores a number of themes related to how society structures itself, including justice, authority,...

The Headsman: The Abbaye des Vignerons is an 1833 novel by James Fenimore Cooper set in Switzerland.The novel was inspired by one of Cooper's trips during his European travels in 1832.The novel is one of three of Cooper's "European" novels, following The Bravo and The Heidenmauer, all of which use the European setting to deal with socio-political contrast with American institutions.Themes--The novel explores a number of themes related to how society structures itself, including justice, authority, friendship, parental relationships, love and marriage. Critical reception--The novel is...

The Chainbearer; or The Littlepage Manuscripts is a novel by the American novelist James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1845. The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with Satanstoe and ending with The Redskins.The novel focuses mainly on issues of land ownership and the displacement of American Indians as the United States moves Westward. Themes Critical to the trilogy of these novels, is the sense of expansion through the measuring and acquisition of land by civilization.The title The Chainbearer represents "the man who carries the chains in measuring the land, the man...

The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel . Plot--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 has left his home in New York state to find a place where he cannot hear the sound of people cutting down the forests. In the years between his other adventures and this novel, he tells us only that he has walked all...

The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel Cooper wrote featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales. The inland sea of the title is Lake Ontario. Composition The Pathfinder was written 13 years after Natty Bumppo had ended his career in The Prairie. Cooper had questioned the wisdom of reviving this hero, and he was at the time engaged in fierce litigations with newspapers. The adventures of the plot on the water take authority from...

The Works by James Fenimore Cooper. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1853 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Au debut de la conquete de l'Amerique par les Anglais et les Francais, la concurrence, euphemisme pour une veritable guerre, fait rage entre les deux camps. Pour les aider dans leurs manoeuvres et dans l'exploration du territoire, les deux partis se sont allies avec des tribus indiennes. Les Francais, qui n'ont pas vraiment le beau role dans ce recit, avec les Hurons, branche du peuple Iroquois. Les Anglais, ce sont les heros..., avec les Delawares, branche du peuple Mohican. Un jeune homme blanc, mais eleve par les Delawares, apres la mort de ses parents, surnomme Deerslayer - Tueur de daims...

The Headsman: The Abbaye des Vignerons is an 1833 novel by James Fenimore Cooper set in Switzerland.The novel was inspired by one of Cooper's trips during his European travels in 1832.The novel is one of three of Cooper's "European" novels, following The Bravo and The Heidenmauer, all of which use the European setting to deal with socio-political contrast with American institutions.Themes--The novel explores a number of themes related to how society structures itself, including justice, authority, friendship, parental relationships, love and marriage. Critical reception--The novel is...