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James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

Autor(a) de The Last of the Mohicans

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About the Author

James Fenimore Cooper, acclaimed as one of the first American novelists, was born in Burlington, N.J., on September 15, 1789. When he was one year old, his family moved to Cooperstown, N.Y., which was founded by his father. Cooper attended various grammar schools in Burlington, Cooperstown, and mostrar mais Albany, and entered Yale University in 1803 at the age of 13. In 1806, Cooper was expelled from Yale for pushing a rag with gunpowder under a classmate's door, causing it to explode. He then spent some time as a merchant seaman and served as a midshipman in the U.S. Navy from 1808-1811. In 1811, Cooper married Susan De Lancey, and lived the life of a country gentleman until one day in 1820. Cooper and his wife were reading a book together. When Cooper told Susan that he could write a better book than the one they were reading, she challenged him to do so. Thus began his career as an author, with Precaution (first published anonymously). Cooper is known for writing more than 50 works under his own name, Jane Morgan, and Anonymous. His works included fiction, nonfiction, history, and travel sketches. He gained insight for his travel works while the Cooper family lived in Europe from 1826 to 1833. Cooper is best known for the novel The Last of The Mohicans, which has been made into several motion picture adaptations, the most recent starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye. The Last of the Mohicans is part of The Leatherstocking Tales, which includes the other novels, The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, and The Pathfinder. Hawkeye, whose given name is Nathaniel Bumpo, is a recurring character in the series which accurately chronicles early American pioneering life and events during the French and Indian War. In 1851, Cooper developed a liver condition, dying on September 14th of that year, just one day before his 62nd birthday. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras de James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans (1826) — Autor — 13,099 cópias
The Deerslayer (1841) 2,793 cópias
The Pioneers (1823) 1,195 cópias
The Prairie (1827) 1,081 cópias
The Spy (1821) 774 cópias
The Leatherstocking Tales (1985) 357 cópias
The Pilot (1824) 310 cópias
The Pilot / The Red Rover (1991) 276 cópias
The Wild West (1993) 216 cópias
The Red Rover (1828) — Autor — 191 cópias
The Wing-and-Wing or Le Feu-Follet (1842) — Autor — 138 cópias
The Two Admirals (1842) 106 cópias
The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas (1830) — Autor — 103 cópias
Satanstoe (1852) — Autor — 94 cópias
The Crater (1847) — Autor — 66 cópias
Precaution (1820) 60 cópias
Home as Found (1860) 60 cópias
The Spy / Lionel Lincoln (2018) — Autor — 60 cópias
Afloat and Ashore (1851) — Autor — 58 cópias
The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts (1845) — Autor — 55 cópias
The Sea Lions (1860) — Autor — 55 cópias
The Bravo (1831) — Autor — 53 cópias
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish (1859) — Autor — 52 cópias
Homeward Bound (1869) 48 cópias
Jack Tier (1881) — Autor — 47 cópias
The Redskins (1846) — Autor — 47 cópias
The Oak Openings, or The Bee Hunter (1848) — Autor — 45 cópias
Wyandotte (1855) — Autor — 41 cópias
The Ways of the Hour (1850) — Autor — 40 cópias
The Monikins (1860) 40 cópias
The Headsman (1833) — Autor — 39 cópias
Lionel Lincoln (1825) — Autor — 35 cópias
Miles Wallingford (1857) 33 cópias
The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie (1992) — Autor — 31 cópias
The Heidenmauer (1880) — Autor — 29 cópias
Mercedes of Castile (1873) — Autor — 27 cópias
Pages and pictures (1865) 16 cópias
Works of J. Fenimore Cooper (1823) 16 cópias
The Pilot / The Red Rover / The Two Admirals (1824) — Autor — 13 cópias
New York (1864) 13 cópias
The Last Of The Mohicans / The Prairie / The Spy (1821) — Autor — 13 cópias
Wyandotte / The Monikins / Jack Tier (1835) — Autor — 12 cópias
The Deerslayer / The Pathfinder / The Pioneers (1823) — Autor — 11 cópias
Recollections of Europe (2007) 10 cópias
The Crater / Miles Wallingford / Homeward Bound (1838) — Autor — 9 cópias
Home As Found / The Chainbearer / The Redskins (1838) — Autor — 8 cópias
The Lake Gun (2009) 8 cópias
The Last of the Mohicans [adapted - Saddleback Classics] (2001) — Original Writer — 7 cópias
La Sentimulo (Facila Esperanto) — Autor — 6 cópias
The Bravo / Mercedes of Castile (1880) — Autor — 5 cópias
The Wild West (Great American Writers Series) (1989) — Autor — 5 cópias
Lucie Hardinge (2015) 5 cópias
Old Ironsides (2008) 5 cópias
The Deerslayer Part 1 Of 2 (1983) — Autor — 5 cópias
The Last of the Mohicans (2013) 4 cópias
The Pathfinder / The Pioneers / The Prairie (1975) — Autor — 3 cópias
The Eclipse (1831) 3 cópias
Der alte Trapper. (1927) 2 cópias
Ojo de halcón 2 cópias
Le lac Ontario (2014) 2 cópias
Eclipse (2013) 2 cópias
La pradera 2 cópias
Precaution / The Ways of the Hour — Autor — 2 cópias
The Water-Witch / The Crater — Autor — 2 cópias
Les pionniers tome 2 (1956) 2 cópias
The Two Admirals / Jack Tier (1880) — Autor — 2 cópias
Letters and journals (1974) 2 cópias
The Headsman / The Heidenmauer — Autor — 2 cópias
The Last of the Mohicans, V. 2 — Autor — 2 cópias
The Piolt 1 exemplar(es)
“Eclipse” 1 exemplar(es)
Stanstoe 1 exemplar(es)
Hutted Knoll 1 exemplar(es)
The Ways of the Hours 1 exemplar(es)
The Jack o'lantern 1 exemplar(es)
Romanzi 1 exemplar(es)
The borderers : a tale 1 exemplar(es)
Lovec jelenů 1 exemplar(es)
Poslední Mohykán 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Novels: Two Admirals (2015) 1 exemplar(es)
The Last of the Mohicans / The Pioneers — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
The Three Musketeers 1 exemplar(es)
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS 1 exemplar(es)
Pren 1 exemplar(es)
Der Wildtöter (2019) 1 exemplar(es)
Der Wildtöter, Teil 10 1 exemplar(es)
Die Wildjagter 1 exemplar(es)
The Last of the Mohicans 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Naval History 1 exemplar(es)
Onder die Rooihuide 1 exemplar(es)
Le dernier des Mohicans (2010) — Auteur illustré — 1 exemplar(es)
Fénimore Cooper: Oeuvres - N° 28 (2017) 1 exemplar(es)
L'ultimo dei mohicani 1 exemplar(es)
Una colonia sobre un volcán (1847) 1 exemplar(es)
Excursions in Italy 1 exemplar(es)
F, Coopers Works 1 exemplar(es)
The 1 exemplar(es)
The Prairie, The Spy 1 exemplar(es)
The Spy 1 exemplar(es)
Indiánova pomsta (1992) 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Works, Vol. IV 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Work's, Vol. V 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Works, Vol. VI 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Works, Vol. VII 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Works, Vol. IX 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Works, Vol. X 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Works, Vol. XI 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Works, Vol. XII 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Works, Vol. XIV 1 exemplar(es)
Útmutató 1 exemplar(es)
Jezioro smierci Mlody orzel (2005) 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Works, Vol. II 1 exemplar(es)
Zvērkāvis : stāsts 1 exemplar(es)
Works (2019) 1 exemplar(es)
El jefe indio 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Works, Vol. III 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Works, Vol. I 1 exemplar(es)
S&S Little Classics 1 exemplar(es)
Indián történetek 1 exemplar(es)
Naval History to 1856 1 exemplar(es)
Bijägaren 1 exemplar(es)
The Prarie (abridged) 1 exemplar(es)
The Pioneers (abridged) 1 exemplar(es)
The Malay Proas 1 exemplar(es)
Priekopníci 1 exemplar(es)
The Pathfinder Annotated (2022) 1 exemplar(es)
פזמק העור 1 exemplar(es)
Az utolsmohik (2002) 1 exemplar(es)
LOVEC JELEŇOV 1 exemplar(es)
El Robinsón americano 1 exemplar(es)
Mohikanlarin Sonu (2015) 1 exemplar(es)
Der letzte Mohikaner, 1 Audio-CD (2001) 1 exemplar(es)
LO STERMINATORE 1 exemplar(es)
Os Pioneiros II Livro 1 1 exemplar(es)
HIl Icacciatore di daini 1 exemplar(es)
Os Pioneiros I Livro 1 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Naval History 1 exemplar(es)
Der Spion Band 1 1 exemplar(es)
The Wing and Wing / Jack Tier (1899) 1 exemplar(es)
Los primeros plantadores — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
The Spy/Wyandotte 1 exemplar(es)
Satanstoe / The Chainbearer — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
The Pilot / The Two Admirals — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
Sea Lions/Jack Tier 1 exemplar(es)
Bir Cep Mendilinin Otobiyografisi (2021) 1 exemplar(es)
El Bravo - Tomo I 1 exemplar(es)
The Prairie / The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
The French Revolution 1 exemplar(es)
Cooper's Novels: The Redskins... (2016) 1 exemplar(es)
The Pathfinders 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

The Last of the Mohicans [1992 film] (1992) — Autor — 459 cópias
The Spy's Bedside Book (1957) — Contribuinte — 353 cópias
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Contribuinte — 297 cópias
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Contribuinte — 275 cópias
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Contribuinte, algumas edições255 cópias
The Portable Conservative Reader (1982) — Contribuinte — 210 cópias
Great Stories of the Sea & Ships (1940) — Contribuinte — 172 cópias
World's Great Adventure Stories (1929) — Contribuinte — 75 cópias
Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2017) — Artista da capa — 55 cópias
Marvel Illustrated: The Last of the Mohicans (2008) — Contribuinte — 49 cópias
Colonial Horrors: Sleepy Hollow and Beyond (2017) — Contribuinte — 47 cópias
American gothic : An anthology 1787–1916 (1999) — Contribuinte — 26 cópias
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (1973) — Contribuinte, algumas edições25 cópias
International Short Stories American (Volume 1) (1910) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
Classic American Short Stories [2016] (2012) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
More Classic American Short Stories (2007) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Representative American Short Stories — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Famous Stories of Five Centuries (1934) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
The princess's story book — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
Cooper, James F.
Data de nascimento
1789-09-15
Data de falecimento
1851-09-14
Local de enterro
Christ Churchyard, Cooperstown, New York, USA
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Burlington, New Jersey, USA
Local de falecimento
Cooperstown, New Jersey, USA
Locais de residência
Ostego Hall, Cooperstown, New York, USA
Cooperstown, New York, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Westchester County, New York, USA
Scarsdale, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA (mostrar todas 7)
Lyon, France
Educação
Albany Academy for Boys
Yale College
Ocupação
writer
sailor
consul
Relacionamentos
Cooper, Paul Fenimore (great-grandson)
Woolson, Constance Fenimore (great-niece)
Lafayette, Marquis de (friend)
Morse, Samuel (friend)
Cooper Jr., James Fenimore (great-grandson)
Cooper, Susan Fenimore (daughter)
Organizações
United States Navy
Premiações
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1910)
Pequena biografia
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American life from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature. He lived much of his boyhood and the last fifteen years of life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William on property that he owned. Cooper became a member of the Episcopal Church shortly before his death and contributed generously to it. He attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society.

After a stint on a commercial voyage, Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman, where he learned the technology of managing sailing vessels which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about espionage set during the American Revolutionary War and published in 1821. He also created American sea stories. His best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period, written between 1823 and 1841, known as the Leatherstocking Tales, which introduced the iconic American frontier scout, Natty Bumppo. Cooper's works on the U.S. Navy have been well received among naval historians, but they were sometimes criticized by his contemporaries. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece. Throughout his career, he published numerous social, political, and historical works of fiction and non-fiction with the objective of countering European prejudices and nurturing an original American art and culture.

Membros

Discussions

Leatherstocking Tales em Easton Press Collectors (Abril 2023)
Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper em Book talk (Setembro 2021)

Resenhas

This is Cooper's second entry in the five volume Leatherstocking series. Hawkeye, the fearless warrior, trapper and guide along with his Mohican friend, Chingachgook, fights bad Indians represented in this novel by the Hurons and their chief, Magua. The tile comes from the fact that Chingachgook's son, Uncas, is the last Mohican if he or his father is killed.

While the descriptions of terrain and people are lengthy and in some instances of action, I had to read some paragraphs several times to be sure I understood what actually had taken place. The famous massacre at Fort William Henry was graphically described and Cooper lays the blame at the feet of General Montcalm for not controlling his native allies.… (mais)
 
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Inhalt
- Der Wildtöter
- Der letzte Mohikaner
- Der Pfadfinder
- Lederstrumpf
- Der Wildsteller

The Pioneers (1823) erschien als der erste Band der Lederstrumpf-Serie, die weltberühmt werden sollte. Im Verlauf von fast 20 Jahren folgten dann The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), The Deerslayer (1841). In den Romanen wird, wenn auch nicht in chronologischer Folge, der Lebensweg des Waldläufers Natty Bumppo, genannt „Lederstrumpf“, nachgezeichnet.

Die Romanfolge ist literaturgeschichtlich aus mehreren Gründen bemerkenswert. Der ausgedehnte amerikanische Kontinent wird zum ersten Mal in der US-amerikanischen Literatur als Handlungshintergrund in größerem Stil verwendet. Auch das Bemühen J. F. Coopers, die Indianer auf eine ausgewogene und realistische Art und Weise darzustellen, war in seiner Zeit durchaus nicht üblich. Kritiker bemängeln allerdings auch, dass es Cooper in vielen Fällen nicht gelang (unklar ist, ob er es bewusst vermied), die Dialoge seiner Helden mit einer realitätsnahen Syntax auszustatten. Gelegentlich wird auch kritisiert, dass seine Frauengestalten weit ab vom wirklichen Leben, praktisch wie in die Romanhandlung eingepflanzt, wirken.

Vor allem klingen in den Lederstrumpf-Romanen bereits alle Leitmotive des Western-Genres an: einerseits das nach Freiheit strebende Individuum, das nur auf die eigenen Kräfte baut, neue Wege in die unentdeckte Wildnis sucht und dabei im Einklang mit der Natur lebt. Andererseits bahnen diese Einzelgänger mit ihrem Vordringen genau jener Zivilisation mit ihren Regeln und Gesetzen den Weg, der sie sich entziehen wollen. Immer wieder geht es auch um die Frage, wem das Land gehört – den Indianern, die keinen Landbesitz kennen, oder den Siedlern, die es urbar machen.(wikipedia)
… (mais)
 
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Inhaltsangabe:
Der amerikanische Schriftsteller erlangte mit seinen Abenteuerromanen Weltruhm. Neben den Indianer-Romanen der Lederstrumpf-Serie veröffentliche Cooper auch Seefahrer-Romane, sein bekanntester ist Der rote Freibeuter (auch als Der Rote Seeräuber bekannt).Im Jahr 1759 liegt ein mysteriöses Schiff im äußeren Hafen von Newport in Amerika. Gerüchte gehen um, dass es sich um das Piratenschiff »Red Rover« handelt, das unter dem Kommando des berühmt berüchtigten »Roten Freibeuters« seit Jahren Angst und Schrecken auf den Meeren verbreitet. Durch eine List soll dem Spuk nun ein Ende gesetzt werden. Harry Wilders heuert auf dem Schiff an und kurz darauf entspinnt sich ein Abenteuer ganz nach Piratenmanier ein Versteckspiel auf hoher See, Schiffbruch und Meuterei sowie ein entscheidendes Gefecht in der Karibik, das eine überraschende Wendung bringt. (buchszene.de)… (mais)
 
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