James Fenimore Cooper Ebooki

“Ostatni Mohikanin” to powieść Jamesa Fenimore’a Coopera, amerykańskiego powieściopisarz, jednego z najwybitniejszych twórców powieści rozgrywających się na dzikim zachodzie.Po poddaniu fortu bronionego przez Brytyjczyków i amerykańskich osadników, dochodzi do masakry jego obrońców przez sprzymierzonych z Francuzami Huronów. Sokole Oko wraz ze swoimi indiańskimi przyjaciółmi – Mohikanami Chingachgookiem i jego synem Unkasem – postanawiają uratować córki angielskiego dowódcy....

“Krzysztof Kolumb” to powieść Jamesa Fenimore’a Coopera, amerykańskiego powieściopisarz, jednego z najwybitniejszych twórców powieści rozgrywających się na dzikim zachodzie.Luis de Bobadilla stara się o rękę, ulubienicy królowej Isabelli. Dziewczyna przysięgła, że odda swą rękę tylko temu, kogo zaakceptuje królowa. Luis nie zyskuje tej akceptacji. Jedyną szansę w poprawieniu swojej reputacji widzi w zaciągnięciu się na statek przygotowywany do zamorskiej wyprawy Krzysztofa Ko...

“Na dalekim zachodzie” to utwór Jamesa Fenimore’a Coopera, amerykańskiego powieściopisarz, jednego z najwybitniejszych twórców powieści rozgrywających się na dzikim zachodzie.
“Na dalekim zachodzie - Przygody w puszczach amerykańskich” składa się z trzech części: Sokole oko, Kamienne serce, Gauchos Wituh. Akcja rozgrywa się podczas walk z Indianami i Francuzami w drugiej połowie XVIII wieku.

The Deerslayer - a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American life created a unique form of American literature.This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as "Deerslayer": a young frontiersman in early 18th-century New York, who objects to the practice of taking scalps, on the grounds that every living thing should follow "the gifts" of its nature, which would keep European A...

The Last of the Mohicans - a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American life created a unique form of American literature.The novel is set primarily in the area of Lake George, New York, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman N...

„Młody orzeł” to powieść dla dzieci opowiadająca o losach znanych bohaterów książek Jamesa F. Coopera: Zwierzobójcy, zwanego też Sokolim Okiem, Nataniela Bumpo, Czyngaszguka. Porusza ona temat konfliktu rdzennych Amerykanów z kolonistami, próbującymi podbić nowe tereny, roszcząc sobie prawo do ziem tubylców. James Fenimore Cooper był amerykańskim pisarzem pierwszej połowy XIX wieku. Jego historyczne romanse przedstawiające pogranicze i życie rdzennych Amerykanów od XVII do ...

In The Pilot (1824), James Fenimore Cooper invented a new literary genre: the sea novel. Bold, vigorous, original, it is a tale of high adventure that vividly captures the majesty and power of the seafaring life. Cooper drew on his direct knowledge of ships and sailors to present a truer picture of life on the sea than had ever before achieved in literature. As a boy of seventeen he had experienced the life of a common seaman, learned the craft of sailing, encountered terri...

Inspired by accusations of venality leveled at the men who captured Major Andre (Benedict Arnold’s co-conspirator, executed for espionage in 1780), Cooper’s novel centers on Harry Birch, a common man wrongly suspected by well-born Patriots of being a spy for the British. Even George Washington, who supports Birch, misreads the man, and when Washington offers him payment for information vital to the Patriot’s cause, Birch scorns the money and asserts that his action were mot...

The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the 3rd novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo. Civilization drives old hunter Natty Bumppo (Leatherstocking) west of the Mississippi to the prairies, where he becomes a trapper and helps a band of emigrants in their conflicts with Indians, miscreants, and the harsh environment. We find Hawkeye removed to the uncharted territory which would become Wyoming and the Dakotas. Having fled the relentless sound o...

The fourth of the Leatherstocking novels, we find Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo) entering the last stages of his life. He has lost a great deal of his effectiveness with his musket and now relies a great deal on his dog to help him hunting. The main focus is one two things: 1. the reinstatement of Natty’s old commander in his properties and wealth in the new US while believing he is the victim of treachery by his old friend – the judge in this story; and 2. Natty’s struggle...

Fenimore Cooper is known for everyone who were interested in Indians and their life in childhood. Almost everyone knows the name of Cooper’s favorite hero, wandering from novel to novel – Natanael, Bampo. The hero of „The Last of the Mohicans” is Hawkeye. The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans – Uncas, his father Chingachgook, and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye – live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters of a British ...

The Deerslayer is an exciting story about the adventures of the woodsman known as Deerslayer and his Delaware Indian friend, Chingachgook. The novel presents the violence and unpredictability of life in a place where only a few white hunters and hunting parties of Indians have ever set foot. The interface between the wilderness and civilization, the pristine life of nature and the impact being made on it by human beings, makes this a fascinating story about a clash of value...

In the third installment of the Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper takes his main character, here called the Pathfinder (Natty Bumppo) and examines his role as an explorer for British/Colonial forces in the forests and islands around the Great Lakes. The story is a classic historical adventure/romance and Bumppo falls in love, for the first and only time in the five novels, only to see his choice fall in love with another man – a younger man and good friend of Natty’s. The Pathf...

„Krzysztof Kolumb” to barwna opowieść o pierwszej wyprawie Kolumba w 1492 roku pod banderą korony hiszpańskiej. Izabela Kastylijska, namówiona przez dworzanina Lisa de Santangela, zezwoliła podróżnikowi zorganizować wyprawę. Na początku sierpnia 1492 roku trzy statki – „Santa Maria”, „Pinta” oraz „Nina” – podniosły kotwice w andaluzyjskim porcie Palos de la Frontera. W październiku Kolumb odkrył Kubę, a w grudniu – Haiti.

Dwujęzyczna adaptacja powieści „The Last of the Mohicans. Ostatni Mohikanin” to atrakcyjna pomoc dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacja została przygotowana z myślą o czytelnikach średnio zaawansowanych, jednak dzięki dwujęzycznej wersji z książki mogą korzystać czytelnicy dopiero rozpoczynający naukę angielskiego.   Odnośniki umieszczone przy każdym akapicie  umożli...

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The action of the novel refers us to the events that took place on the eve of the struggle for the independence of the North American colonies. The heroes of the novel will have to face the distrust of their compatriots, survive their betrayal, withstand the pressure of a gang of Indians, courageously overcome all hardships.

‟Monikins” is a serious and caustic satire on the social mores of England and America at that time. Cooper ridicules both the aristocratic monarchy and the bourgeois republic with equal vigor. The first part of „Monikins” depicts the early years of John Goldencalf. John Goldencalf, by coincidence, is one of the wealthiest people in Europe of the nineteenth century.

In this book you will find a description of the life and way of life of the indigenous inhabitants of the country – Indians and white settlers; numerous hunting scenes. The novel will not leave indifferent either those who appreciate the sharp, constantly in suspense plot, or those who are interested in the conditions under which the development of the American continent was carried out at the beginning of the last century.

The unfolding struggle for land in North America prompted Cooper to write a series of novels about the life and fate of large landowners. The main character, American Hedges Littlepage, and his elderly uncle have been living in Europe for a long time. But suddenly events begin in America that force them to go on a long journey, to their homeland.

This is a gripping maritime story about two whaling ships on a long and cold journey to the shores of Antarctica in search of dangerous goods. Two Sea Lions – two ships, two captains, two crews! Will they become enemies or friends in the prickly ice that threatens to crush them all. And only the scarlet blood of whales, majestic animals, mixes with the white waves of the ocean in the silence of snowy cliffs.

The novel ‟Two Admirals” tells about the events from the history of the naval war between England and France in the middle of the 18th century. At the center of the novel is a touching story of long-term friendship between two admirals, Jevers Oakes and Dick Bluewater. Their relationship is intertwined with another storyline – the struggle for the inheritance left by the old baronet.