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James Fenimore Cooper nacque nel 1789 a Burlington, nel New Jersey. Sebbene la sua famiglia appartenesse all’aristocrazia terriera, il giovane Cooper, attratto dall’avventura, si arruolò nella Marina ove, in qualità di ufficiale, trascorse alcuni anni. La sua vocazione letteraria sopravvenne piuttosto tardi per quell’epoca, cioè verso i trent’anni. Dato l’addio alla navigazione, Cooper iniziò, quasi per scommessa, a scrivere un romanzo, Precaution (1820), che ottenne subito un certo successo. L’anno dopo uscì la sua seconda storia, La spia, e da quel momento l’ex ufficiale di marina decise di dedicarsi completamente a quello che aveva all’inizio considerato solo un passatempo, e diede libero sfogo alla sua potente immaginazione. I suoi romanzi, non troppo curati sul piano stilistico, avevano l’indubbio pregio di interpretare in senso epico la storia della giovane nazione americana: sentiva il bisogno – innanzitutto psicologico – di celebrare la sua fresca indipendenza e di rintracciarne le ragioni ideali. L’eroe più celebre di Cooper è proprio Nathaniel Bumppo, la personificazione dello “spirito di frontiera”. La sua vita è narrata in un ciclo che inizia con I pionieri (1823) e prosegue con l’opera qui pubblicata (1826), con La prateria (1827), La guida (1840) e L’uccisore di cervi (1841).
Jack Tier (Illustrated). E-book. Formato EPUB ebook
EBOOK   9783736806054

Jack Tier (Illustrated). E-book. Formato EPUB James Fenimore Cooper   -  Bookrix, 2014  - 

This work has already appeared in Graham's Magazine, under the title of "Rose Budd." The change of name is solely the act of the author, and arises from a conviction that the appellation given in this publication is more appropriate than the one laid aside. The necessity of writing to a name, instead of getting it from the incidents of the book itself, has been the cause of this departure from the ordinary rules. When this book was commenced, it was generally supposed that the Mexican war would end, after a few months of hostilities. Such was never the opinion of the writer. He has ever looked forward to a protracted struggle; and, now that Congress has begun to interfere, sees as little probability of its termination, as on the day it commenced. Whence honourable gentlemen have derived their notions of the constitution, when they advance the doctrine that Congress is an American Aulic council, empowered to encumber the movements of armies, and, as old Blucher expressed it in reference to the diplomacy of Europe, "to spoil with the pen the work achieved by the sword," it is difficult to say more than this, that they do not get them from the constitution itself. It has generally been supposed that the present executive was created in order to avoid the very evils of a distracted and divided council, which this new construction has a direct tendency to revive. But a presidential election has ever proved, and probably will ever prove, stronger than any written fundamental law.

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