La vie s'écoule paisiblement pour Sir Edward Moseley et son épouse, retirés dans leur château de la campagne anglaise en compagnie de leurs enfants. L'arrivée d'un nouveau voisin, M. Jarvis, honnête marchand en retraite et de sa famille semble apporter un peu de nouveauté dans la monotonie du quotidien, d'autant que Mrs Wilson, soeur d'Edward à laquelle celui-ci avait entièrement confié l'éducation d'Emilie, la plus jeune de ses filles, semble entrevoir dans ses nouveaux venus l'occasion d'un mariage...

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A disagreement over the killing of a buck during a hunting trip brings an elderly Natty Bumppo, known as Leatherstocking, into contact with a judge and his daughter. Staunchly defending his right to hunt in the rapidly-changing Lake Otsego region, Bumppo challenges the prevailing attitudes towards the cultivation of the forest at the height of its pioneer settlement. The first of the five Leatherstocking novels to be published, The Pioneers is chronologically the fourth in the series. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Pioneers - Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna

The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826.

It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time. Its narrative flaws were criticized from the start, and its length and elaborately formal prose style have reduced its appeal to later readers. Regardless, The Last of the Mohicans is widely read in American literature courses. This second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy is the best known. The Pathfinder, written 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel.

Cooper named a principal character Uncas after the most famous of the Mohicans. The real Mohicans lived in the colony of Connecticut in the mid-seventeenth century, and not in the New York frontier a century later. Uncas was a Mohegan, not a Mohican, and Cooper's usage has helped to confuse the names of two tribes to the present day. When John Uncas, his last surviving male descendant died in 1842, the Newark Daily Advertiser wrote "Last of the Mohegans Gone" lamenting the extinction of the tribe. The writer was not aware that Mohegans still existed then and to the present day.

The story takes place in 1757 during the Seven Years' War (known in America as the French and Indian War), when France and the United Kingdom battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. During this war, the French often allied themselves with Native American tribes in order to gain an advantage over the British, with unpredictable and often tragic results.

The Last of the Mohicans

La Prairie, l'un des meilleurs romans du cycle Bas-de-cuir, suite et fin du Dernier des Mohicans, nous entraîne dans les plaines de l'Ouest américain, à l'époque des pionniers, des convois, des et des attaques indiennes. Naitty Bumppo est maintenant un vieil homme qui erre dans la prairie, toujours accompagné de son chien Hector. Il croise sur son chemin un convoi d'émigrants qu'il sauve des Indiens ; c'est le début d'une longue série de péripéties... Fils de colon lui-même, James Fenimore Cooper a su rendre compte de la destinée de l'homme de la frontière et exprimer avec force le conflit entre nature et civilisation.

La Prairie

Ce texte fait partie du « Roman de Bas de Cuir », vaste épopée en cinq volumes qui nous narre la conquête de l'Ouest, les guerres entre les indiens et la blancs, les pionniers, pendant la seconde moitié du 18e siècle. 

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Le Lac Ontario

The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the Leatherstocking tales. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking tales.

The Deerslayer

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

« La Prairie » est le 5e volume du cycle Bas-de-cuir. La famille d'Ismaïl Bush se déplace toujours plus loin dans la Prairie, fuyant la civilisation. Elle retient prisonnière une jeune Espagnole, Inès, qui a été enlevée le jour même de son mariage avec Middleton, officier américain, envoyé pour occuper la Louisiane. Middleton réussira à la retrouver, grâce à Paul, le chasseur d'abeilles, à Hélène, la nièce d'Ismaïl qui aime Paul, au vieux docteur Battius, naturaliste et au personnage emblématique de ce cycle, le vieux trappeur Natty Bumppo, qui est maintenant un vieil homme, errant dans la prairie, toujours accompagné de son chien Hector. Ils devront affronter les Dahcotahs et les Pawnies-Loups, deux tribus d'indiens ennemies.

Le Lac Ontario

  James Fenimore Cooper

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Le Lac Ontario est un roman historique américain publié pour la première fois en 1840. Troisième des cinq ouvrages composant le cycle des Histoires de Bas-de-Cuir (Leatherstocking).


     

  
Il fait partie de la saga dont est issu le célèbre Le Dernier des Mohicans.



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Cycle des histoires de Bas-de-cuir, volume 1 -  Le Tueur de daims
Cycle des histoires de Bas-de-cuir, volume 2 -  Le Dernier des Mohicans
Cycle des histoires de Bas-de-cuir, volume 3 -  Le Lac Ontario
Cycle des histoires de Bas-de-cuir, volume 4 -  Les Pionniers
Cycle des histoires de Bas-de-cuir, volume 5 -  La Prairie
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