James Fenimore: 683 books

Book cover of The American Democrat (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. A provocative exposé on American politics, The American Democrat will amuse, shock, and offend contemporary readers - just as it did when originally published in 1835. It depicts a country teetering on the...
Book cover of New York
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014

THE increase of the towns of Manhattan, as, for the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a great commercial mart, renders them one of the most remarkable places of the present age. Within the distinct recollections of living men,...
Book cover of Water Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014

Christendom is gradually extricating itself from the ignorance, ferocity, and crimes of the middle ages. It is no longer subject of boast, that the hand which wields the sword, never held a pen, and men have long since ceased to be ashamed of knowledge. The multiplied means of imparting principles...
Book cover of Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014

It is an old remark, that the life of any man, could the incidents be faithfully told, would possess interest and instruction for the general reader. The conviction of the perfect truth of this saying, has induced the writer to commit to paper, the vicissitudes, escapes, and opinions of one of his...
Book cover of Oak Openings
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014

It ought to be matter of surprise how men live in the midst of marvels, without taking heed of their existence. The slightest derangement of their accustomed walks in political or social life shall excite all their wonder, and furnish themes for their discussions, for months; while the prodigies that...
Book cover of Deerslayer

Deerslayer

The First Warpath

by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014

This is a novel full of harrowing adventure, telling of the beginnings of some of the main characters in The Last of the Mohican. The action keeps coming throughout the book, keeping a surprising pace through the end.
Book cover of The Pioneers

The Pioneers

Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna

by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015

A disagreement over the killing of a buck during a hunting trip brings an elderly Natty Bumppo, known as Leatherstocking, into contact with a judge and his daughter. Staunchly defending his right to hunt in the rapidly-changing Lake Otsego region, Bumppo challenges the prevailing attitudes towards...
Book cover of The Headsman (Illustrated)

The Headsman (Illustrated)

The Abbaye des Vignerons.

by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014

This opportunity to make a political confession of faith reflected the political turn he already had taken in his fiction, having attacked European anti-republicanism in The Bravo (1831). Cooper continued this political course in The Heidenmauer (1832) and The Headsman: or the Abbaye of Vigneron (1833)....
Book cover of The Wing-And-Wing (Mobi Classics)
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

It is difficult to say of which there is most in the world, a blind belief in religious dogmas, or a presumptuous and ignorant cavilling on revelation. The impression has gone abroad, that France was an example of the last, during the height of her great revolutionary mania; a charge that was scarcely...
Book cover of Tales for Fifteen
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Cooper wrote Andrew Thompson Goodrich, his first publisher, on 31 May 1820, that Precaution had been preceded by an experimental effort to write a short moral tale. Mrs. Opie's Simple Tales (1807) and Tales of Real Life (1813) would have been among the obvious models. Finding the tale "swell to a rather...
Book cover of The Bravo
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019

Eighteenth-century Venice is the setting for The Bravo, a sprawling sea novel that is equal parts travelogue, cultural analysis, political treatise, and adventure tale. While packed with plenty of the gripping action Cooper's novels are known for, The Bravo also offers readers an insightful glimpse...
Book cover of Mercedes of Castille
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015

A thrilling, romantic novel of espionage, adventure, and misguided love, by the writer of the Last of the Mohicans.
Book cover of Le dernier des mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: French
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Book cover of LE BOURREAU DE BERNE
by JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
Language: French
Release Date: January 26, 2014

Extrait : A u commencement d’octobre 1832, une voiture de voyage s’arrêta sur le sommet de cette longue descente qui conduit des plaines élevées de Moudon en Suisse, au niveau du lac de Genève, précisément au-dessus de la petite vallée de Vévey. Le postillon était descendu...
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