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Afloat and Ashore

Autor James Fenimore Cooper
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2009
James Fenimore Cooper was a 19th century writer known for his historical romances and stories of the sea. His Leatherstocking tales including the novel The Last of the Mohicans are his best-known works. First published in 1844 Afloat and Ashore is first a tale of the sea. Miles Wallingford runs away to the sea. He has decided to become a merchant sailor. He experiences the hazards of life at sea, the perils of shore life, financial intrigue, and of course romance. The sequel "Miles Wallingford" answers many of the questions left hanging at the end of the book.
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ISBN-13: 9781443805728
ISBN-10: 1443805726
Pagini: 387
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Notă biografică

James Fenimore Cooper was born in 1789 in New Jersey, the son of a wealthy land agent who founded Cooperstown in New York State. Cooper attended Yale, but was expelled in 1805 and spent five years at sea on merchant then naval ships. He married in 1811, and eventually settled in New York. Precaution, Cooper's first novel, was written in 1820 as a study of English manners; its successors, The Spy and The Pilot, written within the next three years, were more characteristic of the vein of military or seagoing romance that was to become typical of him. In 1823 he began the Leatherstocking Tales series of novels, centred on a shared Native American character at different periods of his life, for which he is chiefly remembered. Cooper's reputation as one of America's leading authors was quickly established, and spread to Europe by a long stay there from 1826, making him one of the first American writers popular beyond that country. After his return to America in 1832, however, conservative political essays and novels dramatising similar views, as well as critiques of American society and abuses of democracy, led to a decline in his popularity. James Fenimore Cooper died in 1851.