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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... once ; and we should be unmind- ful of what we have ever owed and acknowledged to the author who has painted them , if we did not here express the hope that , abandoning abstract disquisitions , or a censorious portraiture of manners ...
... once ; and we should be unmind- ful of what we have ever owed and acknowledged to the author who has painted them , if we did not here express the hope that , abandoning abstract disquisitions , or a censorious portraiture of manners ...
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... once been as nearly accurate as is required by the laws which govern fiction , they are so no longer . Oswego is a large and thriving town ; Toronto and Kingston , on the other side of the lake , compete with it ; while Buffalo ...
... once been as nearly accurate as is required by the laws which govern fiction , they are so no longer . Oswego is a large and thriving town ; Toronto and Kingston , on the other side of the lake , compete with it ; while Buffalo ...
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... once determine whether the sign that others were in their vicinity , was the harbinger of good , or evil . " There must be Oneidas , or Tuscaroras , near us , Arrow- head , " said Cap , addressing his Indian companion by his con ...
... once determine whether the sign that others were in their vicinity , was the harbinger of good , or evil . " There must be Oneidas , or Tuscaroras , near us , Arrow- head , " said Cap , addressing his Indian companion by his con ...
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... once , dear uncle , and proclaim ourselves friends . " " Good- " said the Tuscarora- " red man cool , and know ; pale - face hurried , and fire . Let squaw go . " " What , " said Cap , in astonishment ; " send little Magnet ahead , as a ...
... once , dear uncle , and proclaim ourselves friends . " " Good- " said the Tuscarora- " red man cool , and know ; pale - face hurried , and fire . Let squaw go . " " What , " said Cap , in astonishment ; " send little Magnet ahead , as a ...
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... once assured Magnet she was in no danger . Still she paused , in obedience to a law of her habits , if not of nature , which rendered her averse to the appearance of ad- vancing too freely to meet one of the other sex , under the cir ...
... once assured Magnet she was in no danger . Still she paused , in obedience to a law of her habits , if not of nature , which rendered her averse to the appearance of ad- vancing too freely to meet one of the other sex , under the cir ...
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