"the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians."" After the War of 1812, there was an increasing desire to produce a uniquely American literature and culture, and a number of literary figures emerged, among them Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, and James Fenimore Cooper. Irving wrote humorous works in ""Salmagundi"" and the satire ""A History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker"" (1809). Bryant wrote early romantic and nature-inspired poetry, which evolved away from their European origins. Cooper's ""Leatherstocking Tales"" about Natty Bumppo (which includes ""The Last of"
"their fears with love. In many cases the couple must face a level of personal danger, and, upon surmounting their troubles, are able to forge a strong relationship for the future. Fenimore Cooper is a noted nineteenth century writer of literary fiction romances that are set on the American frontier. Cooper's best-known works are five ""Leatherstocking Tales"". Among the most famous of these works is ""The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of"" 1757 (1826), often regarded as his masterpiece. Guy Vanderhaeghe (1951 – ) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novels trilogy,"
"to . William Cooper founded a village on Otsego Lake. His son James Fenimore Cooper grew up in the frontier town. He later became a noted American author with ""The Leatherstocking Tales"", a series of historical novels that includes ""The Last of the Mohicans"". Cooper established the village of Cooperstown in 1786, laid out by surveyor William Ellison. At the time, the area was part of Montgomery County. It was incorporated as the ""Village of Otsego"" on April 3, 1807. The name was changed to ""Village of Cooperstown"" June 12, 1812 after the founder. William Cooper was appointed as a"
"Johann Adam Hartmann Johann Adam Hartmann (1748-1836) was a German born trapper and frontiersman in New York State. Some consider him as a possible inspiration for Natty Bumpo, the main character in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Hartmann was born in Edenkoben, Palatinate (Germany) in 1748. His parents were ""Anna Maria Scholl"", a native of Edenkoben and ""Johann Hartmann"", a weaver who was originally from Switserland. The couple married in 1737. Hartman left his hometown at the age of 16 to travel on the ship ""Boston"" from Rotterdam to Philadelphia. From there he moved to Upstate New York where he"
"Erzahlungen"" an adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novels featuring Natty Bumppo, collectively known as ""The Leatherstocking Tales"", (including ""The Last of the Mohicans"") in 1969. The serial is known to have been dubbed into German, English, French and Italian. Currently no official copies of the Italian dub are known to exist. Additional Cast of German Cut: Note: Certain scenes were shot with different actors for the German cut of ""Robinson Crusoe"", and some extra scenes were filmed, as an example Wooseley's niece, the blind man and Jenny do not appear in the French/English version. Stills from the German scenes can"
"The Monsters of Templeton The Monsters of Templeton is a dramatic novel written by Lauren Groff. Groff was born and raised in Cooperstown, New York. The name Templeton draws from the name devised for the town by James Fenimore Cooper, Cooperstown's most renowned author, known for ""The Leatherstocking Tales"". Groff draws in many of the legends of Cooperstown, especially those crafted by Cooper himself, and ties them together over the expanses of time, then weaves them in with fictional modern-day events. The book was released to great critical acclaim. Willie Upton returns home to Templeton for the summer from her"
"two sons in wars with Indians, he respected Indians and was respected by them. In Missouri, Boone often went hunting with the very Shawnees who had captured and adopted him decades earlier. Some 19th-century writers regarded Boone's sympathy for Indians as a character flaw and therefore altered his words to conform to contemporary attitudes. Boone's adventures, real and mythical, formed the basis of the archetypal hero of the American West, popular in 19th-century novels and 20th-century films. The main character of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, the first of which was published in 1823, bore striking similarities to Boone; even"
"Woodstock (novel) Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Walter Scott. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652, during the Commonwealth, and his final triumphant entry into London on 29 May 1660. At a thanksgiving service in Woodstock church for the victory at Worcester (3 September 1651),"
"His most famous novel is """" (1826), the second book of the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" pentalogy. ""The Last of the Mohicans"" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is perhaps the most famous 19th-century American historical novel. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. In French"
"American literature. Cooper is best remembered for his numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the ""Leatherstocking Tales"", with their emphasis on heroic simplicity and their fervent landscape descriptions of an already-exotic mythicized frontier peopled by ""noble savages"", exemplified by Uncas, from ""The Last of the Mohicans"" (1826) show the influence of Rousseau's (1712–78) philosophy. Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabre that first appeared in the early 1830s, and his balladic poetry were more influential in France than at home. By the mid-19th century, the pre-eminence of literature from the British Isles began to be challenged by writers"
"Herman Wendelborg Hansen Herman Wendelborg Hansen (1854-1924) was a 19th-century artist, well known for his Western-themed paintings featuring horses, cowboys, and the frontier. Hansen was born in Dithmarschen, Germany. From an early age, he was gifted in art. His father, a rector and draftsman, encouraged his son's talent, and sent him to Hamburg at the age of 16. Here, Hansen studied battle scenes from the artist, Simmonsen. In 1876, Hansen went to England for school, but was intrigued by the American West. He was inspired by James Fenimore Cooper's novel, ""Leatherstocking Tales"". The following year, Hansen emigrated to New York"
"the novel with great disappointment. The Monikins The Monikins is an 1835 novel, written by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel, a beast fable, was written between his composition of two of his more famous novels from the ""Leatherstocking Tales"", ""The Prairie"" and ""The Pathfinder"". Critic Christina Starobin compares the novel's plot to Jonathan Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"". The novel, narrated by the main character, the English Sir John Goldencalf, is a satire. Goldencalf and the American captain Noah Poke travel on a series of humorous adventures. The novel is not very popular amongst readers of Cooper. A contemporary critic of the"
"outlived his son. In the series ""The Leatherstocking Tales"" by James Fenimore Cooper, Chingachgook is the best friend and companion of the main character Natty Bumppo, aka Hawkeye. He appears in The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, and The Pioneers. He is characterized by his skills as a warrior and forester, his bravery, his wisdom, and his pride for his tribe. Chingachgook is said to have been modeled after a real-life wandering Mohican basket maker and hunter named Captain John. The fictional character, occasionally called John Mohegan in the series, was an idealized embodiment of the traditional"
"The Monikins The Monikins is an 1835 novel, written by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel, a beast fable, was written between his composition of two of his more famous novels from the ""Leatherstocking Tales"", ""The Prairie"" and ""The Pathfinder"". Critic Christina Starobin compares the novel's plot to Jonathan Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"". The novel, narrated by the main character, the English Sir John Goldencalf, is a satire. Goldencalf and the American captain Noah Poke travel on a series of humorous adventures. The novel is not very popular amongst readers of Cooper. A contemporary critic of the novel in ""The Knickerbocker"" described"
"David Shipman (colonist) David Shipman (1730 – 1813) is generally considered to be the real-life inspiration for James Fenimore Cooper's character Natty Bumppo in the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" along with a pioneer man named Thomas Leffingwell. When Cooper's father Judge William Cooper settled in what is now Otsego County, New York in the mid-1780s, Shipman lived alone in a small cabin in the hills south of the village of Cooperstown, a squatter on the land of Cooper's neighbor John Christopher Hartwick. Shipman was a veteran of the American Revolution and had a reputation locally as an expert hunter and fisherman. During"
"Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and its sequel ""Through the Looking-Glass"". He was noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. The poems ""Jabberwocky"" and ""The Hunting of the Snark"" are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon. Carroll came from a family of high church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for"
"The Book of Lost Tales The Book of Lost Tales is a collection of early stories by English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, published as the first two volumes of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series ""The History of Middle-earth"", in which he presents and analyzes the manuscripts of those stories, which were the earliest form of the complex fictional myths that would eventually comprise ""The Silmarillion"". Each of the Tales is followed by notes and a detailed commentary by Christopher Tolkien. For publication the book was split into two volumes: ""The Book of Lost Tales 1"" (1983) and ""The Book of"
"illustrating 10 days before his death in February 1963. Charles Folkard Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the ""Daily Mail"" newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on ""The Arabian Nights"", ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", ""Aesop's Fables"", and ""Pinocchio"". Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a"
"of the story in 1952-3 (remade in 1973-4). This adaptation is heavily influenced by American movies and western comics and is filled with absurd humor and anachronistic jokes. An English translation of Sugiura's 1973-4 version including a lengthy essay on Sugiura's artistic influences was published in the United States in 2013. The Last of the Mohicans The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826) is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper. It is the second book of the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. ""The Pathfinder"", published 14 years later in 1840, is"
"The Romance of Certain Old Clothes ""The Romance of Certain Old Clothes"" is a short story by American-British author Henry James, written in February 1868 and first published in ""The Atlantic Monthly"". The original debut was in Volume 21, Issue 124. James later made some revisions, including changes to the family name and eldest daughter when he published the story in the UK in 1885. It has been included in several anthologies, including ""American Gothic Tales"", edited by Joyce Carol Oates. The tale begins in the 18th century in Massachusetts. It features the Willoughbys (changed to Wingraves in the 1885"
"Beatrix Potter Helen Beatrix Potter (British English , North American English also , 28 July 186622 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in ""The Tale of Peter Rabbit"". Born into an upper-class household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Though Potter was typical of women of her generation in"
"Pippi Longstocking (novel) Pippi Longstocking () is a Swedish children's novel by writer Astrid Lindgren, published by Rabén & Sjögren with illustrations by Ingrid Vang Nyman in 1945. Translations have been published in more than 40 languages, commonly with new illustrations. The first English language translation was published late in 1950 by The Viking Press in the United States with illustrations by Louis S. Glanzman. In 2002 the Norwegian Nobel Institute listed the novel as one of the ""Top 100 Works of World Literature"", based on polling one hundred authors from fifty-four countries. Lindgren originally told Pippi stories to her"
"was inspired by a tale related to him by neighbor and family friend John Jay. It was more successful and became a bestseller; the setting of this Revolutionary War tale is widely believed to have been John Jay's family home ""The Locusts"" in Rye, New York. In 1823, Cooper published ""The Pioneers"", the first of the ""Leatherstocking"" series. The series features Natty Bumppo, a resourceful American woodsman at home with the Delaware Indians and their chief Chingachgook. Bumppo was also the main character of Cooper's most famous novel ""The Last of the Mohicans"" (1826), written in New York City where"
"Edward Seidensticker Edward George Seidensticker (February 11, 1921 – August 26, 2007) was a noted post-World War II scholar, historian, and preeminent translator of classical and contemporary Japanese literature. His English translation of the epic ""The Tale of Genji,"" published in 1976, was especially well received critically and is counted among the preferred modern translations. Seidensticker is closely associated with the work of three major Japanese writers of the 20th century: Yasunari Kawabata, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Yukio Mishima. His landmark translations of novels by Kawabata, in particular ""Snow County"" (1956) and ""Thousand Cranes"" (1958), led, in part, to Kawabata being"
"The Twinkle Tales The Twinkle Tales is a 1905 series by L. Frank Baum, published under the pen name Laura Bancroft. The six stories were issued in separate booklets by Baum's publisher Reilly & Britton, with illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright. In 1911, the six eight-chapter stories were collected as Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland — which is a misnomer, since Chubbins appears in only two stories and few are set in ""Nature-Fairyland"". The book was followed by ""Policeman Bluejay"", which was retitled ""Babes in Birdland"" for its second edition. Baum later wanted these Bancroft stories published"
"immediately followed the realisation of his anxious and long-cherished hopes. In ""Two Years Before the Mast"" the author/narrator recounts reading ""Woodstock"" to his fellow sailors. Woodstock (novel) Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Walter Scott. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652, during the Commonwealth, and"
"The Last of the Mohicans The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826) is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper. It is the second book of the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. ""The Pathfinder"", published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel. ""The Last of the Mohicans"" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent,"
"men in Europe from the 13th to 16th centuries (the Renaissance period) were a form of leggings, as are the trews of the Scottish Highlands. Separate leggings of buckskin leather were worn by some Native Americans. These were adopted by some Long Hunters, French fur trappers, and later by mountain men. They are the ""leatherstockings"" of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. The Buckskins were mostly a dull grey brain-tan, not the bright, glossy vegetable tanned leather commonly used today. Cowboys wore leggings of buckskin to protect from chapping caused by riding, wear and tear to their pants, and bites from"
"Charles Folkard Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the ""Daily Mail"" newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on ""The Arabian Nights"", ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", ""Aesop's Fables"", and ""Pinocchio"". Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a show at the Egyptian Hall in London. His artistic"
"Joseph Jacobs Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 – 30 January 1916) was an Australian folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore. Jacobs was born in Sydney to a Jewish family. His work went on to popularize some of the world's best known versions of English fairy tales including ""Jack and the Beanstalk"", ""Goldilocks and the three bears"", ""The Three Little Pigs"", ""Jack the Giant Killer"" and ""The History of Tom Thumb"". He published his English fairy tale collections: ""English Fairy Tales"" in 1890 and ""More"
"Tales"", was among first widely read works of American literature in Britain and Europe. It also helped advance the reputation of American writers with an international audience. Apart from ""Rip Van Winkle"" and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" — the pieces which made both Irving and ""The Sketch Book"" famous — the collection of tales includes ""Roscoe"", ""The Broken Heart"", ""The Art of Book-making"", ""A Royal Poet"", ""The Spectre Bridegroom"", ""Westminster Abbey"", ""Little Britain"", and ""John Bull"". Irving's stories were highly influenced by German folktales; ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" was inspired by a folktale recorded by Karl Musäus. Stories"
"The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by the American author Washington Irving. It was published serially throughout 1819 and 1820. The collection includes two of Irving's best-known stories, attributed to the fictional Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker: ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" and ""Rip Van Winkle"". It also marks Irving's first use of the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, which he would continue to employ throughout his literary career. ""The Sketch Book"", along with James Fenimore Cooper's ""Leatherstocking"
"inscription in Book II reads: The Book of Lost Tales The Book of Lost Tales is a collection of early stories by English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, published as the first two volumes of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series ""The History of Middle-earth"", in which he presents and analyzes the manuscripts of those stories, which were the earliest form of the complex fictional myths that would eventually comprise ""The Silmarillion"". Each of the Tales is followed by notes and a detailed commentary by Christopher Tolkien. For publication the book was split into two volumes: ""The Book of Lost Tales 1"""