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The Pioneers de James Fenimore Cooper

The Pioneers

Autor James Fenimore Cooper
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 apr 2018

O dispută aprinsă asupra unui cerb vânat pe pământuri ce trec rapid din stăpânirea naturii în cea a legii — aceasta este imaginea care deschide Pioneers, marcând începutul literar al legendarului Natty Bumppo. Apreciem modul în care această ediție din seria Classics Illustrated, publicată de CLASSIC COMIC STORE LTD, reușește să condenseze esența prozei lui James Fenimore Cooper într-un format grafic accesibil, fără a sacrifica profunzimea tematică. Merită menționat că, deși este prima carte scrisă din celebra saga The Leatherstocking Tales, ea ne prezintă un protagonist aflat deja la apusul vieții, un contrast fascinant față de tânărul cercetaș din The Last of the Mohicans. Cititorul care a apreciat lupta pentru supraviețuire și peisajele sălbatice din The Deerslayer va găsi aici aceleași elemente, dar într-un context diferit: cel al civilizației care avansează inexorabil, transformând pădurea virgină în așezări precum Templeton. Stilul artistic al lui Rudolph Palais oferă o dimensiune vizuală vibrantă frontierelor statului New York, capturând tensiunea dintre vechii locuitori, reprezentați de Bumppo și nobilul mohican Chingachgook, și noile structuri sociale impuse de Judecătorul Temple. Față de alte lucrări ale autorului, precum The Water-Witch Or, the Skimmer of the Seas a Tale, unde accentul cade pe aventurile maritime, Pioneers rămâne ancorată în pământul american, fiind un studiu melancolic despre progres și pierderea libertății absolute.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781515427964
ISBN-10: 151542796X
Pagini: 386
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.78 kg
Editura: SMK Books

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Recomandăm această ediție celor care doresc să descopere originile literaturii americane într-un format vizual captivant. Prin Pioneers, cititorul câștigă o perspectivă unică asupra conflictului dintre dreptul natural și legea scrisă, totul sub semnătura primului mare romancier al Americii. Este o piesă de colecție esențială pentru fanii genului istoric și ai benzilor desenate clasice, oferind o poartă rapidă către universul complex al lui Natty Bumppo.

Despre autor

James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) a fost o figură centrală a literaturii americane de secol XIX, fiind primul scriitor din Statele Unite care a obținut recunoaștere internațională. Crescut în Cooperstown, un oraș fondat de tatăl său pe frontiera statului New York, Cooper a extras din propria experiență materia primă pentru romanele sale istorice. După o carieră în marina militară, care i-a influențat scrierile despre mare, el a creat nemuritoarea serie The Leatherstocking Tales. Opera sa a definit spiritul american, explorând relația dintre coloniști și populațiile indigene, fiind apreciată de critici pentru autenticitatea descrierilor și curajul de a aborda teme sociale și politice într-o cultură încă tânără.

Notă biografică

James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. He lived most of his life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William on property that he owned. Cooper was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church and, in his later years, contributed generously to it. Before embarking on his career as a writer, he served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman, which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about counterespionage set during the Revolutionary War and published in 1821. He also wrote numerous sea stories and his best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among naval historians, Cooper's works on the early U.S. Navy have been well received, but they were sometimes criticized by his contemporaries. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.

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The first of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales," "The Pioneers" tells the story of the elderly Natty Bumppo and his ongoing friendship with the Mohican, Chingachgook. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biogra

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This collector-quality edition includes the complete text of James Fenimore Cooper's classic tale of the conflicts and complications brought by the advance of civilization along the New York frontier in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. With a large 7.44"x9.69" page size, this Summit Classic edition is printed on hefty 60# bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Page headers and proper placement of footnotes exemplify the attention to detail given this volume. "The Pioneers," published in 1823, was the first of James Fenimore Cooper's five novels comprising the "Leatherstocking Tales" saga, although the time period in which the story is set makes it the fourth chronologically. Set in 1793, the tale opens with a dispute between an elderly Natty Bumppo, called Leatherstocking in this story, and Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton over who killed a buck. Perhaps ahead of his time, Cooper explores the complex themes of land use and stewardship along the rapidly receding frontier in the vicinity of Lake Otsego, New York, and the relationship between the residents of the growing town and the earlier inhabitants of the frontier. This building conflict between Leatherstocking and his close friend, the Mohican Indian Chingachgook, and Judge Temple and the growing settlement provides the impetus for the story, which moves forward to its sadly inevitable conclusion against the backdrop of Cooper's vivid depictions of a frontier which he personally saw vanishing in his youth. Cooper in fact grew up in Cooperstown, New York, founded by his father, a New Jersey congressman, and many have suggested that this tale is at least partially autobiographical, with the Judge and the character Elizabeth patterned after Cooper's father and a sister. Cooper himself denied these assertions, stating that while the setting reflected his boyhood home the characters were fictional. He seems to have particularly resented the idea that Elizabeth was based on a favorite sister who died young, saying that patterning a fictional character after her would denigrate her memory. With the publication of "The Spy" in 1821, James Fenimore Cooper became an international figure and the first authentic American novelist, free of the forms and conventions of the British fiction of the day. In a writing career spanning thirty years, over thirty novels and an extensive body of lesser works, with "The Leatherstocking Tales" he became the first great interpreter of the American experience, chronicling the adventures of the indomitable Natty Bumppo, known variously as "Hawkeye," "Deerslayer," "Pathfinder," "Leatherstocking" and other names, from the colonial Indian wars through the early expansion into the vast western plains. Published between 1823 and 1841, beginning with "The Pioneers" and ending with "The Deerslayer," the tales are set against historical events ranging from 1740 to 1804, with Cooper taking some literary license with the actual chronology of events, probably to avoid having Bumppo ranging the Great Plains at over 90 years of age. This edition of "The Pioneers" is the second volume in a new series of the complete Leatherstocking Tales to be released by Summit Classic Press in the coming months.