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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Set in the 1740s, just after the start of the French and Indian wars, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer tells the story of a young Natty Bumppo, most famously known as ‘Hawkeye’, and his Mohican ‘brother’ Chingachgook, as they attempt to rescue Chingachgook’s betrothed, Wah-ta-Wah, from the Hurons. When Bumppo’s friends Harry March and Tom Hutter are also captured, Bumppo must go on his first warpath in...
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Классическая проза, Зарубежная современная проза, Зарубежный детектив |
The year is 1757. The English and the French are at war in North America. Two sisters - Cora and Alice - want to visit their father, General Munro. They begin their dangerous journey with the handsome English officer, Duncan Heyward and the Indian guide, Magua. On the way they meet friends and enemies, and many adventures. Some people will be heroes and some people will die. And what will happen to their friend Uncas, the last of the Mohican Indians?
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler.
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Год | 2010 |
Originally published in 1823, The Pioneers is the first of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town of the American frontier. The heart of the novel is a conflict over who owns America, and by what concept of right. The competing claims of Native Americans, Tory loyalists, roving hunters, and visionary cultivators are pitted against one another in the area of history, and the magical village ofCooper's...
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2006 |
Published in 1826, The Last of the Mohicans is an adventure story centred on the kinship between white frontiersman, Natty Bumppo or 'Hawkeye' and two Mohican Indians, Chingachgook and his son Uncas. The action takes place during the French and Indian War. Alice and Cora, daughters of a British fort commander, are on a perilous journey through the dark forests of western New York. Their Huron guide, Magua, turns out to be a traitorous French sympathizer who holds the sisters captive...
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2022 |
When Uncas, the Mohican Indian, first saw the Englishwoman Cora, he immediately fell in love with her. But he could not imagine at that time the price he would pay for this love. Could his white brother, Hawkeye, help him? Will the Mohican tribe manage to survive in the end?
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| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2012 |
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Prairie is the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero. Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the "Leatherstocking Tales", though it was published before "The Pathfinder" and "The Deerslayer". Bumppo...
| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер, James Cooper, Cooper J |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Miles Wallingfordis a classic Cooper's sea adventure novel about merchant mariners and serves as a sequel to the sea adventure classic, "Afloat and Ashore".
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| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер, James Cooper, Cooper J |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Two Admirals is an 1842 nautical fiction set during the 18th century. Exploring the British Royal Navy, Cooper wrote the novel out of encouragement of his English publisher, who recommended writing another sea novel. Cooper had originally intended to write a novel...
| Автор | Джеймс Фенимор Купер, James Cooper, Cooper J |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
Дикі ліси Північної Америки ще населяють войовничі племена індіанців, і мало хто з білих поселенців наважується заглиблюватись у ті хащі. Але хоробрий мисливець на прізвисько Звіробій, що виріс в індіанському племені, добре знайомий зі звичаями тутешніх мешканців. Юнак прибуває до берегів озера Мерехтливе Свічадо, щоб допомогти своєму другові, могікану Чингачгуку, наречена якого була викрадена ворожим плем’ям гуронів. Аби врятувати з полону прекрасну дівчину, відважним друзям-відчайдухам...
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Исторические приключения, Приключения, Зарубежные приключения |
It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war, attempt to join their father. Thwarted by Magua, the...
| Автор | James Cooper, Cooper J.F |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 1992 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.’Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper’s story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron...
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Классическая проза, Зарубежная современная проза, Книги о войне |
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Jack Tier; or, the Florida Reef is a novel set during the Mexican-American war that describes an untraditional lovestory.
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Redskins is the last volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, narrating the history of three generations of a Dutch-descended American family starting from the mid-eighteenth century.
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. This volume contains Cooper's novel and some of his short stories. The Spy was Cooper's second novel, published in 1821. The action takes place during the American Revolution. Garvey Birch is a modest American who pretends to be a regular peddler, but in fact collecting...
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Crater; or, Vulcan's Peak: a Tale of the Pacific is a novel in which Cooper incorporated knowledge of ship construction he had acquired while working as a midshipman. From merely surviving the loss of his shipmates and the embayment of his ship within The Reef,...
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Satanstoe is the first of a three novels cycle "The Littlepage Manuscripts", followed by "The Chainbearer" and "The Redskins". The novel is a fictional autobiography, that gives a comprehensive view of colonial life and society in New York State in the middle of the...
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
In 1823, Cooper began writing The Pilot, which he saw as a sea novel that seamen would appreciate for its fidelity and yet one that landsmen could understand.
The hero of The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea - modeled on John Paul Jones - leads the American Navy in dangerous raids on the English coast. James Fenimore Cooper's fourth novelhelped start the genre of sea novels.
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
1757 - Lake Ontario, North America.
A second adventure with the scout, Hawk-eye, and his friend, Chingachgook.
Mabel Dunham arrives at the English fort. Three men fall in love with her - an English officer, the captain of a ship and Hawk-eye.
Then Mabel hears the terrible news. There are spies in the fort. The French army and their Indian fighters are coming.
Retold by T. P. Yatt.
| Автор | James Cooper |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2005 |