The Pathfinder: or the Inland SeaState University of New York Press, 30. 6. 1980 - Počet stran: 569 With the publication of The Pathfinder in 1840, James Fenimore Cooper engaged in what he called the "hazardous experiment" of reviving one of his most popular characters who had been allowed to die in a previous novel. Natty Bumppo—who had appeared as Leatherstocking in The Pioneers, as Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans, and who had died as the Trapper in The Prairie—appears again as the hero of The Pathfinder. Encouraged by his British publisher to write another tale of the American frontier, Cooper revived his character to take him to the shores of Lake Ontario, the Inland Sea, for an adventurous story of sailors, Indians, and hunters. Inspired by his own experiences as a mid-shipman on Lake Ontario in 1808-09, Cooper writes in his most picturesque fashion of the wilderness of the Great Lakes, the Thousand Islands, and Niagara. "Never did the art of writing tread more closely upon the art of the painter," wrote Honoré de Balzac in his review of The Pathfinder. Cooper writes of places that were wilderness in his youth and that changed rapidly in his own lifetime as cities and commerce developed around the Great Lakes. Cooper's attitude toward this development was ambivalent, as he indicated in his Preface: "That great results are intended to be produced by means of these wonderful changes, we firmly believe...but that they will prove to be of the precise results now so generally anticipated, in consulting the experience of the past, and taking the nature of man into account, the reflecting and intelligent may be permitted to doubt." The Pathfinder remains a classic and entertaining account of the American wilderness and of aspects of human experience in the New World. |
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... Rust Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head , And Learning wiser grow without his books . Cowper , The Task , VI , ll . 86-88 . State University of New York Press Albany The preparation of this volume was made possible ( in.
... Rust Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head , And Learning wiser grow without his books . Cowper , The Task , VI , ll . 86-88 . State University of New York Press Albany The preparation of this volume was made possible ( in.
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... give it much success . " 15 By Christmas he was able to report that " about half of the last volume of Pathfinder is printed . " 16 Despite " so many holidays " and " blue days after every festival , Historical Introduction xvii.
... give it much success . " 15 By Christmas he was able to report that " about half of the last volume of Pathfinder is printed . " 16 Despite " so many holidays " and " blue days after every festival , Historical Introduction xvii.
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... give the promised hail , when a rapid movement from Arrowhead defeated the intention , by derang- ing the instrument . " Red man , Mohican , " said the Tuscarora ; " good ; pale - face , Yengeese . " " These are heavenly tidings ...
... give the promised hail , when a rapid movement from Arrowhead defeated the intention , by derang- ing the instrument . " Red man , Mohican , " said the Tuscarora ; " good ; pale - face , Yengeese . " " These are heavenly tidings ...
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... give up the point , and , at the same time , unable to maintain it against a reasoning to which he was unaccustomed , and which possessed equally the force of truth , faith and probability , he was glad to get rid of the subject by ...
... give up the point , and , at the same time , unable to maintain it against a reasoning to which he was unaccustomed , and which possessed equally the force of truth , faith and probability , he was glad to get rid of the subject by ...
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... Give me an offing , and the enemy in sight , and I'll play with him in his own fashion , as long as he pleases , long bows , or close quarters ; but to be shot like a turtle asleep , is not to my humour . If it were not for little ...
... Give me an offing , and the enemy in sight , and I'll play with him in his own fashion , as long as he pleases , long bows , or close quarters ; but to be shot like a turtle asleep , is not to my humour . If it were not for little ...
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