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James Fenimore Cooper

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American novelist and satirist.
Classic of adventure literature.
Member of the American
Philosophical Society. After reading
some novel to his wife, Cooper
noticed that it is easy to write better.
His wife caught him at the word, and
not to appear boastmore, he wrote his
first novel in few weeks

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The first novel by James Fenimore
Cooper, published in 1820. Unlike
his subsequent works, the action of
this book takes place in England.
“Precaution" was written in the
spirit of sentimental English novels
on the topic of marriage. The
author clearly holds the idea that
the choice of the groom for her
daughter – the moral duty of her
parents

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Cooper's second novel, already from American
life, became the famous "Spy, or the Tale of
neutral territory" ("The Spy: A Tale of the
Neutral Ground", 1821), which had a huge
success not only in America but also in Europe.
The action of the Spy takes place during the
War of independence. The main character Garvey birch, a modest American, posing as an
ordinary peddler, and in fact collecting for the
Continental army of military information in the
territories controlled by British troops

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The novel takes place in the years 1793-1794 in the
village, located at the source of Sasquihanna from
lake Otsego, that is, in those places where Cooper
grew up, and at a time when he was 4 — 5 years
old. The book tells about the complex relationship
between the two groups of villagers
Here again, as in "Spy", the theme of love
between people from warring camps is used

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The last of the Mohicans is a historical
novel by American writer James Fenimore
Cooper, first published in 1826. Is the
second book in Pentalog on a Leather
Grip (as on the date of publication, and
chronology of the epic), in which Cooper
tells about life on the American frontier
and one of the first portrays the
uniqueness of the spiritual world and
customs of the American Indians.
The novel has been filmed many times,
including the most famous version of 1992,
directed by Michael Mann

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The novel opens a series of
adventure works about the
colonization of North America,
which brought James Fenimore
Cooper unfading fame around the
world.

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An experienced hunter Netti, Bampo nicknamed
St. John's Wort fate pushed Harry Marcham on
the way to the lake, a Shimmering mirror. St.
John's wort in a hurry to help an old friend,
Chingachgook, whose bride WA-TA-WA was
kidnapped by a militant and ruthless Huron.
Harry seek to home have lake to Judith Hutter,
in that hopelessly in love with. This journey,
filled with dangerous adventures with an
unpredictable end, has long been a classic of the
adventure genre
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