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Home as Found is James Fenimore Cooper’s sequel to Homeward Bound and continues the experiences of Americans returning home after time abroad. Cooper uses the return journey to examine what has changed in the United States and what the travellers themselves have changed through exposure to
Precaution was James Fenimore Cooper’s first published novel, and it is an interesting early glimpse of a writer before he found the frontier adventure stories that would make him famous. Instead of wilderness and naval action, Cooper turns his attention to manners, family, courtship
The Bravo is James Fenimore Cooper’s attempt to use a Mediterranean setting to examine political corruption, social hierarchy, and the ways governments control ordinary people. Set in Venice, the novel explores a society where public institutions and private interests are deeply entangled
Cooper places Natty Bumppo in the North American frontier during conflict with enemy forces, exploring wilderness survival, friendship, honor, violence, and encounters between cultures
Cooper combines wilderness travel, captivity, frontier conflict and shifting alliances in a novel whose adventure is inseparable from its portrayal of American frontier life
James Fenimore Cooper follows frontier scouts and settlers through wilderness travel, military conflict, romance, and survival during the struggle between colonial powers
The Sea Lions is James Fenimore Cooper’s maritime adventure about sealing, survival, hidden motives, and the danger of the polar seas. Cooper takes the classic sea story and pushes it toward the edge of the known world, where icy waters and remote islands make every mistake potentially fatal
Wyandotte is James Fenimore Cooper’s historical adventure about settlers, conflict, loyalty, and survival on the American frontier. The story takes place in a period when colonial families live close to the edge of conflict, where relationships with Indigenous peoples, neighboring settlements
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