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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... never forgotten by one of the party at least . " 10 Thirty years later Cooper was able to capitalize on his Ontario experience . By the end of April 1839 , he had seen The History of the Navy of the United States of America through the ...
... never forgotten by one of the party at least . " 10 Thirty years later Cooper was able to capitalize on his Ontario experience . By the end of April 1839 , he had seen The History of the Navy of the United States of America through the ...
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... never have existed on that water , or anywhere else , others so nearly resembling them as to form a sufficient authority for their introduction into a work of fiction , are known to have navigated that inland sea , even at a period much ...
... never have existed on that water , or anywhere else , others so nearly resembling them as to form a sufficient authority for their introduction into a work of fiction , are known to have navigated that inland sea , even at a period much ...
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... never to fail . But it is now urgent to know whether we meet as friends , or foes . They may be French . " " One hail will soon satisfy us , on that head , " returned Cap . " Stand you , behind this tree , Magnet , lest the knaves take ...
... never to fail . But it is now urgent to know whether we meet as friends , or foes . They may be French . " " One hail will soon satisfy us , on that head , " returned Cap . " Stand you , behind this tree , Magnet , lest the knaves take ...
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... never been known to miss one end of the trail , when there was a Mingo , or a friend , who stood in need of me , at the other . " This was not uttered boastfully , but with the honest confi- dence of one , who well knew that by whatever ...
... never been known to miss one end of the trail , when there was a Mingo , or a friend , who stood in need of me , at the other . " This was not uttered boastfully , but with the honest confi- dence of one , who well knew that by whatever ...
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... never dreams of , though you may possibly have education enough to guess at it , having some pretensions to understand the compass , I suppose . " " The reason is easily comprehended , " said the young man , involuntarily fastening his ...
... never dreams of , though you may possibly have education enough to guess at it , having some pretensions to understand the compass , I suppose . " " The reason is easily comprehended , " said the young man , involuntarily fastening his ...
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