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Cooper James Fenimore The Headsman. Abbaye des Vignerons
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James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. One of the Coopers European trilogy, The Headsman is set in Switzerland. The novel was inspired by one of Coopers trips during his European travels in 1832. It explores a number of themes related to how society structures itself, including justice, authority, friendship, parental relationships, love and marriage.
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The Bravo was inspired by a James Fenimore Coopers trip to Europe where he traveled through much of Italy. This novel set in Venice and it is the first of Coopers three novels to be set in Europe. The book largely focuses on political themes, especially the tension between the social elite and other classes.
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Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. Confidence is a great novel which centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angela Vivian. The plot rambles through various romantic entanglements before reaching an uncomplicated, but still believable happy ending.
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Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire both on human nature and the travellers tales literary subgenre of the day. It is Swifts best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
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One of the Coopers European trilogy, The Headsman set in Switzerland. The novel was inspired by one of Coopers trips during his European travels in 1832. The novel explores a number of themes related to how society structures itself, including justice, authority, friendship, parental relationships, love and marriage.
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Washington Square marks the culmination of Jamess apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870s, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novels action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherines suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression. Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele.