Bøker av James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 was published in 1826, the second and most popular in a series of five books by James Fenimore Cooper that make up the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, a series featuring the American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. This installment follows Natty, or Hawkeye, and his Delaware Indian companions as they escort the daughters of an English colonel to Fort William Henry in the wild frontier of New York during the Seven Years' War. This second novel in the series has been adapted for many films, TV, radio, opera, and comics, and continues to be the most popular of all of Cooper's works.This bilingual edition is designed to assist those learning French. The original English text appears on the left-hand pages of the book, with the corresponding French translation on the right-hand pages.Other bilingual books available from Sleeping Cat Press: The Picture of Dorian Gray Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine Candide Shakespeare's Sonnets New Fairy Tales for Small ChildrenThe Tales of Mother GooseThe Count of Monte Cristo (Unabridged, Vols 1-4)Madame Bovary

Charles Cap ist zusammen mit seiner Nichte Mabel Dunham auf dem Weg ins Fort Oswego, wo Mabels Vater als Sergeant arbeitet. Sie werden von dem indianischen Scout Arrowhead und seiner Frau June begleitet. Im Wald trifft die Gruppe auf den Waldläufer Natty Bumppo, genannt Pfadfinder, den Mohikaner Chingachgook und den Binnenkapitän Jasper Western ... James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller der Romantik. Cooper ist in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Schlüsselfigur der amerikanischen Literatur. Er blieb bis weit in das 20. Jahrhundert hinein auch in Europa der wohl meistgelesene.