The Prairie. A Tale.

Language: English

Published by London; George Routledge + Sons Ltd. o.J. (um 1900)., 1900

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XXXII; 468 S.; 19 cm. Gutes Ex.; Einband stw. leicht berieben; Seiten stw. fleckig; Innengelenk lädiert. - Englisch. - James Fenimore Cooper (* 15. September 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey als James Cooper; 14. September 1851 in Cooperstown, New York) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller der Romantik. . Cooper ist in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Schlüsselfigur der amerikanischen Literatur. Neben Washington Irving war er der erste amerikanische Schriftsteller, der von seinen Büchern leben konnte. Er blieb bis weit in das 20. Jahrhundert hinein auch in Europa der wohl meistgelesene. Nach dem Vorbild Sir Walter Scotts schrieb er die ersten historischen Romane und die ersten Seefahrtsromane der amerikanischen Literatur. Sein umfangreiches Werk umfasst weiter zahlreiche historiografische Werke, Essays und Satiren über Amerika wie Europa. Besonders bekannt sind bis heute seine fünf Lederstrumpf-Romane, die die Erschließung des amerikanischen Westens durch weiße Scouts, Trapper und Siedler, aber auch die allmähliche Zurückdrängung und Vernichtung der indianischen Kultur thematisieren. . (wiki) // His best characters those which are the most complete, the most highly finished, which take the strongest hold of the reader's mind, were usually cast in a noble mould. It was natural that this should be so ; there was never a pen held by a writer of works of the imagination more frankly honest, more simply sincere, more invariably guided by the real feeling of the author, than his own. He wrote from the heart. It was no cold factitious head-work with him. His own personal views were always elevated ; to this fact his whole life bears testimony, a testimony which assumes its strongest character to those who knew him most intimately. Writing with him was simply the outpouring of his own nature, the expression of his own inmost train of thought, the current of real feeling in his heart. Every character at all a favorite with him, he instinctively idealized, he gave it something of the glow ever warm at his own heart's core. It was therefore quite a matter of course that m drawing Indian character he should dwell on the better traits of the picture, rather than on the coarser, and more revolting though more common points. Like West, he could see the Apollo in the young Mohawk. He chose to draw from a Metacom, a Powhatan. To-day we are apt to forget that such men have actually existed. We stumble over a drunken Chippewa lying in the path, and conceive ourselves entitled to lower the whole race, even in its past independent existence, to the abject condition of the fallen wretch before us, degraded though he be by vices learned of the white man. . (Introd. By Susan Fenimore Cooper) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Title
The Prairie. A Tale.
Author
Cooper, James Fenimore:
Publisher
London; George Routledge + Sons Ltd. o.J. (um 1900).
Publication year
1900
Condition
Gut
Binding
Goldgepr. Originalleinen.
Language
English
Item weight
550 grams
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