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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... young Uncas ; while in this tale , he re - appears in the same war of '56 , in com- pany with his Mohican friend , still in the vigor of manhood , and young enough to feel that master passion to which all con- ditions of men , all ...
... young Uncas ; while in this tale , he re - appears in the same war of '56 , in com- pany with his Mohican friend , still in the vigor of manhood , and young enough to feel that master passion to which all con- ditions of men , all ...
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... young mariner , but none in the world to the old ones . I should know water , child , were I to see it in China . " " Ontario- " repeated the Arrowhead , with emphasis , again stretching his hand towards the North West . Cap looked at ...
... young mariner , but none in the world to the old ones . I should know water , child , were I to see it in China . " " Ontario- " repeated the Arrowhead , with emphasis , again stretching his hand towards the North West . Cap looked at ...
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... young woman , " said the hunter , for such his attire would indicate him to be , " you have met christian men , in the wilderness , and such as know how to treat all kindly that are disposed to peace and justice . I'm a man well known ...
... young woman , " said the hunter , for such his attire would indicate him to be , " you have met christian men , in the wilderness , and such as know how to treat all kindly that are disposed to peace and justice . I'm a man well known ...
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... young , healthful and manly in appearance , and wore a dress , which , while it was less rigidly professional than that of the uncle , also denoted one accustomed to the water . In that age , real seamen were a class entirely apart from ...
... young , healthful and manly in appearance , and wore a dress , which , while it was less rigidly professional than that of the uncle , also denoted one accustomed to the water . In that age , real seamen were a class entirely apart from ...
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... young friend Jasper Western , here , who can claim to know something of these matters , seeing that he has passed his days on Ontario . " " I am glad to see you , friend , " said Cap , giving the young fresh - water sailor , a cordial ...
... young friend Jasper Western , here , who can claim to know something of these matters , seeing that he has passed his days on Ontario . " " I am glad to see you , friend , " said Cap , giving the young fresh - water sailor , a cordial ...
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