Books by James Fenimore Cooper

Portrait of James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper, often hailed as the father of the American historical novel, is best known for his vivid frontier adventures and sharply drawn depictions of early settler life. His prose captures the tension between wilderness and civilisation, exploring themes of identity, morality, and the shaping of a young nation through memorable characters and dramatic landscapes.

From the enduring popularity of *The Last of the Mohicans* to his broader Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper's work remains a cornerstone of classic literature. His storytelling combines meticulous historical detail with a timeless sense of adventure, appealing to readers who appreciate both historical authenticity and stirring narrative.

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  • The Last of the Mohicans

    Penguin Books Ltd The Last of the Mohicans

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    Book SynopsisAngered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook. As the savageries of war test these exiled men, they agree to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile Indian country.Trade Review"[Cooper's] sympathy is large, and his humor is as genuine -- and as perfectly unaffected -- as his art."- Joseph Conrad

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  • The Last of the Mohicans

    Wordsworth Editions Ltd The Last of the Mohicans

    Book SynopsisIntroduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury. 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 sinister 'Indian runner', they find help in the person of Hawkeye, the white woodsman, and his companions, the Mohican Chingachgook and Uncas, his son, the last of his tribe. Cooper's novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain, skirmishes, treachery and brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists and the native peoples. Through the character of Hawkeye, Cooper raises lasting questions about the practises of the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures.

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  • The Last of the Mohicans: Annotated Edition (Alma

    Alma Books Ltd The Last of the Mohicans: Annotated Edition (Alma

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    Book SynopsisAfter doubts are raised concerning the trustworthiness of Magua, Cora and Alice Munro’s Native American guide, the warrior slips away into the wilderness, and the vulnerable sisters turn to the scout Hawk-eye and the Mohicans Chingachgook and Uncas to lead them to Fort William Henry, where their father is in command. Yet Magua is sure to return with his fellow Huron warriors, and with the bloody conflict of the French and Indian War raging all around them, the Munros will have to trust their new guides if they are ever to reach the fort. Widely regarded as the first great American novel, The Last of the Mohicans, with its epic landscapes, stoic frontiersmen and noble Native Americans, created much of the mythology and romance that has wreathed the American frontier adventure ever since. This edition contains notes and extra material.

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  • The Last of the Mohicans Collins Classics

    HarperCollins Publishers The Last of the Mohicans Collins Classics

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    Book SynopsisHarperCollins 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 tribe, they soon meet Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his Mohican Indian companions Chingachgook and Uncas.Magua is not all that he seems and the sisters are kidnapped. In The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper sets Indian tribe against Indian tribe and lays bare the brutality of the white man against the Mohicans.

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  • The Last of the Mohicans

    Oxford University Press The Last of the Mohicans

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  • The Redskins

    State University of New York Press The Redskins

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  • The Prairie

    Double 9 Booksllp The Prairie

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    Book SynopsisThe story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen, and Abiram making across the virgin prairies of the Midwest searching for a homestead. They meet the trapper (Natty Bumppo), who has left his home in New York State to find where he can't hear the sound of individuals cutting down the timberlands. All that evening, a band of Teton warriors takes Ishmael's animal, stranding the immigrants. The doctor returns the following morning along with his donkey after a band of Teton warriors takes Ihmael's animals. He escapes with Inez, Paul, and Middleton, whom Abiram had been keeping hostage, and escapes with her and Ellen. The Indians endeavor to recapture the catcher by encompassing them with a prairie fire, yet he lights up a backfire to save everybody.They get together with Hard-heart, a Pawnee Indian who endures the fire enclosed by buffalo skin and endeavors to disappear to his town. Middleton, Inez, Paul, and Ellen return just in time to witness the Trapper's death.The Prairie (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel composed by him featuring Natty Bumppo. It was published in two volumes in 1827, the third of five books published as The Leatherstocking Tales. Sequentially, The Prairie is the fifth and last portion of the Leatherstocking Stories, though it was distributed before The Pathfinder (1841) and The Deerslayer (1842). The book ends with the death of the octogenarian frontiersman Natty Bumppo, called Hawkeye.

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  • The Headsman Or The Abbaye des Vignerons

    Double 9 Books The Headsman Or The Abbaye des Vignerons

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  • Pioneers

    Classic Comic Store Ltd Pioneers

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    Book SynopsisThe first of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales," "The Pioneers" tells the story of the elderly Natty Bumppo and his ongoing friendship with the Mohican, Chingachgook. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biogra

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  • The Spy

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  • The Red Rover a Tale

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  • The WaterWitch or the Skimmer of the Seas a Tale

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  • The Last of the Mohicans

    Union Square & Co. The Last of the Mohicans

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    Book SynopsisWritten in 1826, but set in 1757,The Last of the Mohicansportrays ordinary men and women caught in the crossfires of the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America.

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  • The Last of the Mohicans

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  • The Pathfinder

    Classics Illustrated Comics The Pathfinder

    Book SynopsisCooperâs most picturesque novel, The Pathfinder, is a naval story set on the Great Lakes amidst the French and Indian War of the 1750s. Natty Bumppo traverses new dangers of love and war in this thrilling wilderness adventure!

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