The historical adventure novel by Fenimore Cooper tells in detail about the first expedition of Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America. Cooper draws his character as a person far superior to those around him. Columbus was not an adventurer; he relied on experience and knowledge, knew how not to succumb to superstition. He was not afraid of the unknown, he was inspired and led forward by the dream of new discoveries. This is how he is depicted in the novel.
‟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.
Kamienne Serce, to jedna z powieści przygodowo-historycznych amerykańskiego pisarza Jamesa Fenimore’a Coopera. Ich akcja rozgrywa się w drugiej połowie XVIII wieku w Ameryce Północnej, wśród pionierów i Indian. Ich głównym bohaterem jest traper i myśliwy zwany Sokolim Okiem, biały człowiek wychowany przez Indian. Utwory te to romantyczny i idealistyczny obraz osiemnastowiecznych kresów Ameryki Północnej i zamieszkujących je Indian i osadników. Cechują je barwne opisy przyrody...
„Krzysztof Kolumb” to powieść historyczna Jamesa Fenimore Coopera z 1840 roku. Powieść rozgrywa się w XV-wiecznej Europie i śledzi przygotowania i wyprawę Krzysztofa Kolumba na Zachód, do Nowego Świata. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) był amerykańskim powieściopisarzem, znanym ze swoich pełnych akcji fabuł i żywego, choć nieco wyidealizowanego, wizerunku amerykańskiego życia w lesie i na morzu. Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-Engl...
„Pionierowie” to amerykańska powieść przygodowa dla młodzieży. Początki istnienia Stanów Zjednoczonych, trudy życia osadników (tzw. pionierów), walki z Indianami – to temat tej książki. Głównym bohaterem jest Nataniel (Sokole Oko), myśliwy wychowany przez rdzennych mieszkańców Ameryki. Wzbudza nieufność kolonistów, musi ich do siebie przekonać. „Pionierowie” zawierają również wątek miłosny. Jaki? Posłuchajcie sami.
