Articles related to "James Fenimore Cooper"

Brief biography of American novelist James Fenimore Cooper, best-known for Leatherstocking Tales and American frontier stories.

The Last of the Mohicans is a staple of American literature classes. Despite contemporary criticism, the novel has become one of the most popular works of U.S. fiction.

It's easy to teach this novel as an example of symbolism without dealing with the complexity of placing it within its historic context, but that doesn't do it justice.

Australian Nobel Prize-winning fiction writer Patrick White, who died in 1990, possessed a brilliance for language that suggests film is a limited medium.

Mark Twain, who was the most celebrated American writer of his time, believed that "the secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."

Award-winning Charles Frazier writes purely epic novels about the American South with a unique voice.

When Machias settlers heard of Lexington and Concord, they attacked a British ship picking up lumber for British barracks in Boston.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain each wrote American classics that firmly establish these writers as America's most important authors.

Brief biography and works of Sir Walter Scott, famous for poem "The Lady of the Lake."

Part of the romance of the sea is found in its traditions and none have lingered longer than the superstitions of sailors and fishermen

There is no single event for which it can be said: "Aha! That's when the environmental movement began." However, many writers helped raise ecological awareness.