‟Precaution” was written in the spirit of sentimental English novels on the theme of marriage. The author clearly holds the idea that the choice of a groom for her daughter is the moral duty of her parents. Initially, the novel was read aloud to several friends of the family, without revealing the authorship; the listeners decided that the author was a woman. Cooper was satisfied with this result, he turned to the publisher.
Two surviving American sailors, Mark and Bob, found themselves on a bare volcanic rock in the middle of the ocean. Gradually, they manage to form a soil layer using silt, guano and algae. As a result of a storm, Bob is carried away on a boat to the ocean, but he manages to get to America, from where, after stories about adventures, a party of their 9 relatives and friends of sailors arrives.
This is a historical saga about the fate of three generations of the Littlepage family living in the New World. The novel tells about the people who heroically and bravely mastered the lands of the Wild West, as well as the tragic fate of the indigenous people of America – the Indians. Under the onslaught of aliens and the advancing civilization, they had to give up their lands.
The events of the novel take place not on the American continent, but in the very heart of Europe. Almost all the characters in the novel are forced in extreme circumstances to reveal themselves in a new light: some, with all their desire, cannot disguise their meanness, greed, inner readiness for betrayal, others show the highest nobility and purity of human qualities.
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.
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 ...
„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.