The Prairie

Leesfragment
€0,99
  • The
  • Prairie:
  • A
  • Tale
  • (1827)
  • is
  • a
  • novel
  • by
  • James
  • Fenimore
  • Cooper,
  • the
  • 3rd
  • novel
  • written
  • by
  • him
  • featuring
  • Natty
  • Bumppo.
  • His
  • fictitious
  • frontier
  • hero
  • Bumppo
  • is
  • never
  • called
  • by
  • his
  • name,
  • but
  • is
  • instead
  • referred
  • to
  • as
  • "the
  • trapper"
  • or
  • "the
  • old
  • man."
  • Chronologically
  • The
  • Prairie
  • is
  • the
  • 5th
  • &
  • final
  • installment
  • of
  • the
  • Leatherstocking
  • Tales,
  • though
  • it
  • was
  • published
  • before
  • The
  • Pathfinder
  • (1841)
  • &
  • The
  • Deerslayer
  • (1842).
  • It
  • depicts
  • Natty
  • in
  • the
  • final
  • year
  • of
  • his
  • life
  • still
  • proving
  • helpful
  • to
  • people
  • in
  • distress
  • on
  • the
  • American
  • frontier.
  • The
  • book
  • frequently
  • references
  • characters
  • &
  • events
  • from
  • the
  • two
  • books
  • previously
  • published
  • in
  • the
  • Leatherstocking
  • Tales
  • as
  • well
  • as
  • the
  • two
  • which
  • Cooper
  • wouldn't
  • write
  • for
  • more
  • than
  • ten
  • years.
  • Continuity
  • with
  • The
  • Last
  • of
  • the
  • Mohicans
  • is
  • indicated
  • by
  • the
  • appearance
  • of
  • the
  • grandson
  • of
  • Duncan
  • &
  • Alice
  • Heyward
  • &
  • the
  • noble
  • Pawnee
  • chief
  • Hard
  • Heart,
  • whose
  • name
  • is
  • English
  • for
  • the
  • French
  • nickname
  • for
  • the
  • Delaware,
  • le Coeur-dur.
1 of 161
pro-mbooks3 : libris