литература 19 века

The Pioneers enters of Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town of the American frontier. The heart of the novel is a conflict over who owns America, and by what concept of ri…

In 1823, Cooper began writing which he saw as a sea novel that seamen would appreciate for its fidelity and yet one that landsmen could understand. The hero of – modeled on John Paul Jones – leads the American Navy in dangerous raids on the English…

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Oak Openings; or,…

The Two Admirals The Deerslayer

Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity. …