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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... truth to nature , and for their originality ; and we feel that he is capable of doing so again .... We congratulate Mr. Cooper and the public , then , upon his return to his old ground of romance . " 37 In a similar vein , Gaylord Clark ...
... truth to nature , and for their originality ; and we feel that he is capable of doing so again .... We congratulate Mr. Cooper and the public , then , upon his return to his old ground of romance . " 37 In a similar vein , Gaylord Clark ...
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... truth , as to strive to seem its vo- taries . In attacking the Pathfinder , the persons alluded to pointed out faults , that the author , for the first time , has now ascertained to be real ; and much to his surprise , as of most of ...
... truth , as to strive to seem its vo- taries . In attacking the Pathfinder , the persons alluded to pointed out faults , that the author , for the first time , has now ascertained to be real ; and much to his surprise , as of most of ...
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... truth be said , I rather pride myself in finding my way , where there is no path , than in finding it where there is . But the regular troops be by no means particular , and half the time they do'n't know the difference atween a trail ...
... truth be said , I rather pride myself in finding my way , where there is no path , than in finding it where there is . But the regular troops be by no means particular , and half the time they do'n't know the difference atween a trail ...
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... truth , felt that interest in the other , which similarity of age , condition , mutual comeliness and their novel situation would be likely to inspire in the young and ingenuous . " Here , " said Pathfinder , with an honest smile ...
... truth , felt that interest in the other , which similarity of age , condition , mutual comeliness and their novel situation would be likely to inspire in the young and ingenuous . " Here , " said Pathfinder , with an honest smile ...
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... truth were known , Master Western , I suppose there is more or less land all round your lake . " " And , uncle , is there not more or less land all round the ocean- " said Magnet quickly , for she dreaded a premature dis- play of the ...
... truth were known , Master Western , I suppose there is more or less land all round your lake . " " And , uncle , is there not more or less land all round the ocean- " said Magnet quickly , for she dreaded a premature dis- play of the ...
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