James Fenimore Cooper

The Water-Witch is a typical example of Fenimore Cooper's naval romances, combining the hinted-at supernatural element that he often included in such novels.

The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish is one of Fenimore Cooper's characteristic romances of the Native American wars, but set as far back as the Puritan colonies of the late seventeenth century.

Tales for Fifteen consists of a pair of short stories, one lightly satiric, the other sentimental, published under a female pseudonym before Fenimore Cooper found success with his first adventure novel.

The 'Travelling Bachelor' who is named as author on the original title page of this two-volume work is in fact James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), best remembered today as the writer of The Last of the Mohicans (1826), generally regarded as his masterpiece, which has remained in print and been adapted for cinema and television many times. In fact, Cooper was a prolific author of political journalism and travel writing as well as novels. His Notions of the Americans is an epistolary work in which Cooper adopts the persona of a well-travelled European clubman who has decided to explore the United States in the same spirit as that in which the offspring of the British nobility undertook the Grand Tour. Within a light-hearted narrative, Cooper's serious purpose was to reveal the nature of this brand-new nation to his own countrymen as well as to Europeans.

The 'Travelling Bachelor' who is named as author on the original title page of this two-volume work is in fact James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), best remembered today as the writer of The Last of the Mohicans (1826), generally regarded as his masterpiece, which has remained in print and been adapted for cinema and television many times. In fact, Cooper was a prolific author of political journalism and travel writing as well as novels. His Notions of the Americans is an epistolary work in which Cooper adopts the persona of a well-travelled European clubman who has decided to explore the United States in the same spirit as that in which the offspring of the British nobility undertook the Grand Tour. Within a light-hearted narrative, Cooper's serious purpose was to reveal the nature of this brand-new nation to his own countrymen as well as to Europeans.

The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, and partly in his evocation of the wild beautiful landscapes of North America which the French and the British fought to control throughout the eighteenth century. At the centre of the novel is the celebrated `Massacre' of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality, and heroism, in which the destiny of the Mohicans Chingachgook and his son Uncas is inseparable from the lives of Alice and Cora Munro and of Hawkeye the frontier scout. The controlled, elaborate writing gives natural pace to the violence of the novel's action: like the nature whose plundering Copper laments, the books placid surfaces conceal inexplicable and deathly forces. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Midt i de veldige skogene i provinsen New York, tett ved den kanadiske grensen, raser det en krig. Året er 1856, og kampen står mellom engelske og franske styrker og deres indianske allierte om herredømmet over de nordamerikanske koloniene. Eskortert av offiseren Duncan Heyward og den indianske stifinneren Magua, reiser søstrene Cora og Alice Munro fra fort Edward for å forenes med sin far, kommandanten på fort William Henry, en dagsreise unna. Men ferden gjennom den ugjestmilde villmarken viser seg å være et nøye planlagt komplott, og reisefølget berger med nød og neppe livet da Haukøye og hans indianervenner Chingachgook og Uncas kommer dem til unnsetning. Dette blir starten på et dramatisk eventyr, befolket med heltemodige soldater, svikefulle indianere og uskyldige nybyggere, og der storslått natur og voldsomme kamphandlinger danner et tragisk bakteppe for umulig kjærlighet og tidlig død. Dette er den første komplette norske utgaven av Den siste mohikaner. Oversatt av Christian Heyerdahl. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851) var i sin levetid en anerkjent og svært populær forfatter. Særlig var han kjent for sine sjøromaner og historiske fortellinger. Blant disse stiller The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840) og The Deerslayer (1841) i en særklasse. Disse fem romanene danner den såkalte Lærstrømpe-serien, og har en trygg plass i den amerikanske litterære kanon. Den uten sammenligning mest berømte av disse er Den siste mohikaner. Den er for ettertiden blitt stående som den første indianerroman overhodet, og skulle få stor betydning i dannelsen av en felles amerikansk identitet.