James Fenimore Cooper

The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Rhode-Island were inhabited by four great Indian nations. The Europeans brought their own ideas of government to the area and assumed the chiefs inherited their titles and therefore were kings. The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish is one of Fenimore Cooper's characteristic romances of the Native American wars. It is set in the time of the Puritan colonies of the late seventeenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Book Jungle
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9781438536712
• ISBN-10: 1438536712
• Artikelnr.: 28915315

Autorenporträt

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances draw a picture of frontier and Native American life in the early American days which created a unique form of American literature. He lived most of his life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William on property that he owned. Cooper was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church and contributed generously to it. He attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society. Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman, which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about counter-espionage set during the American Revolutionary War and published in 1821. He also wrote numerous sea stories, and his best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the Leatherstocking Tales. 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.