Classic American literature

The classic American literature brought among the members of the important literatures of the world. The first author is Washington Irving, essayist, story writer, historian and biographer. He wrote a large biography of George Washington, history of New York. One of his well-known book is The Sketch Book.

James Fenimore Cooper was brought up in a pioneer settlement, with plenty of time to be with American Indians and talk to them. He became a widely read author of novels of heroism and adventure - mainly the Leather-Stockings Tale - The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie. The chief character of the series is Natty Bumppo (= Deerslayer, Hawkeye, Pathfinder, Leather-Stocking). In him Cooper idealised the typical frontiersman of the early pioneering epoch.