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  • The Pioneers - Classic Illustrated Edition

    James Fenimore Cooper

    eBook (Heritage Illustrated Publishing, April 2, 2014)
    - One of Cooper's widely acclaimed 'Leatherstocking Tales' series, The Pioneers is the gripping account of the experiences of elderly Leatherstocking Natty Bumpo, Judge marmaduke Temple, and Elizabeth Temple in nineteenth century America.- Just as accessible and enjoyable for today's modern readers as it would have been when first published well over a century ago, the novel is one of the great works of American literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world.- This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is beautifully illustrated with a number of atmospheric historical paintings that reflect the mood of the novel.
  • The Last of the Mohicans

    James Fenimore Cooper

    Paperback (Dover Publications, June 20, 2003)
    A massacre at a colonial garrison, the kidnapping of two pioneer sisters by Iroquois tribesmen, the treachery of a renegade brave, and the ambush of innocent settlers create an unforgettable, spine-tingling picture of American frontier life in this classic 18th-century adventure — the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.First published in 1826, the story — set in the forests of upper New York State during the French and Indian War — movingly portrays the relationship between Hawkeye, a gallant, courageous woodsman, and his loyal Mohican friends, Chingachgook and Uncas. Embroiled in one of the war's bloody battles, they attempt to lead the abducted Munro sisters to safety but find themselves instead in the midst of a final, tragic confrontation between rival war parties.Imaginative and innovative, The Last of the Mohicans quickly became the most widely read work of the day, solidifying the popularity of America's first successful novelist in the United States and Europe. Required reading in many American literature classics, the novel presents a stirring picture of a vanishing people and the end to a way of life in the eastern forests.
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  • The Pioneers - Classic Illustrated Edition

    James Fenimore Cooper

    eBook (Heritage Illustrated Publishing, April 2, 2014)
    - One of Cooper's widely acclaimed 'Leatherstocking Tales' series, The Pioneers is the gripping account of the experiences of elderly Leatherstocking Natty Bumpo, Judge marmaduke Temple, and Elizabeth Temple in nineteenth century America.- Just as accessible and enjoyable for today's modern readers as it would have been when first published well over a century ago, the novel is one of the great works of American literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world.- This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is beautifully illustrated with a number of atmospheric historical paintings that reflect the mood of the novel.
  • The Pioneers

    James Fenimore Cooper

    eBook (Heritage Illustrated Publishing, Dec. 9, 2016)
    The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period of time it covers makes it the fourth chronologically.
  • The Pioneers

    James Fenimore Cooper

    eBook (Heritage Illustrated Publishing, Feb. 20, 2020)
    The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period of time it covers makes it the fourth chronologically.The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth Temple (the author's sister Susan Cooper), of Cooperstown. The story begins with an argument between the Judge and the Leatherstocking over who killed a buck, and as Cooper reviews many of the changes to New York's Lake Otsego, questions of environmental stewardship, conservation, and use prevail. The plot develops as the Leatherstocking and Chingachgook begin to compete with the Temples for the loyalties of a mysterious young visitor, "Oliver Edwards," the "young hunter," who eventually marries Elizabeth. Chingachgook dies, exemplifying the vexed figure of the "dying Indian," and Natty vanishes into the sunset. For all its strange twists and turns, 'The Pioneers' may be considered one of the first ecological novels in the United States.
  • The Pioneers

    James Fenimore Cooper

    eBook (Heritage Illustrated Publishing, Nov. 29, 2019)
    The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period of time it covers makes it the fourth chronologically.
  • The Pioneers - Classic Illustrated Edition

    James Fenimore Cooper

    eBook (Heritage Illustrated Publishing, April 2, 2014)
    - One of Cooper's widely acclaimed 'Leatherstocking Tales' series, The Pioneers is the gripping account of the experiences of elderly Leatherstocking Natty Bumpo, Judge marmaduke Temple, and Elizabeth Temple in nineteenth century America.- Just as accessible and enjoyable for today's modern readers as it would have been when first published well over a century ago, the novel is one of the great works of American literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world.- This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is beautifully illustrated with a number of atmospheric historical paintings that reflect the mood of the novel.
  • The Pioneers Illustrated

    James Fenimore Cooper

    eBook (Heritage Illustrated Publishing, Feb. 19, 2020)
    The first of the five Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers is perhaps the most realistic and beautiful of the series. Drawing on his own experiences, Cooper brilliantly describes Frontier life, providing a fascinating backdrop to the real heart of the novel--the competing claims to land ownership of Native Americans and settlers. This edition follows the publication of The Last of the Mohicans in the World's Classics series and uses the standard text approved by the Modern Language Association.
  • The Pioneers

    James Fenimore Cooper

    eBook (Heritage Illustrated Publishing, Dec. 10, 2019)
    The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period of time it covers makes it the fourth chronologically.The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth Temple (the author's sister Susan Cooper), of Cooperstown. The story begins with an argument between the Judge and the Leatherstocking over who killed a buck, and as Cooper reviews many of the changes to New York's Lake Otsego, questions of environmental stewardship, conservation, and use prevail. The plot develops as the Leatherstocking and Chingachgook begin to compete with the Temples for the loyalties of a mysterious young visitor, "Oliver Edwards," the "young hunter," who eventually marries Elizabeth. Chingachgook dies, exemplifying the vexed figure of the "dying Indian," and Natty vanishes into the sunset. For all its strange twists and turns, 'The Pioneers' may be considered one of the first ecological novels in the United States.
  • The Pioneers

    James Fenimore Cooper

    eBook (Heritage Illustrated Publishing, July 16, 2020)
    The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period of time it covers makes it the fourth chronologically.
  • The Pioneers - Classic Illustrated Edition

    James Fenimore Cooper

    eBook (Heritage Illustrated Publishing, April 2, 2014)
    - One of Cooper's widely acclaimed 'Leatherstocking Tales' series, The Pioneers is the gripping account of the experiences of elderly Leatherstocking Natty Bumpo, Judge marmaduke Temple, and Elizabeth Temple in nineteenth century America.- Just as accessible and enjoyable for today's modern readers as it would have been when first published well over a century ago, the novel is one of the great works of American literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world.- This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is beautifully illustrated with a number of atmospheric historical paintings that reflect the mood of the novel.
  • The Pioneers

    James Fenimore Cooper

    eBook (Heritage Illustrated Publishing, Feb. 16, 2020)
    The Pioneers is a historical novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper.