Wyandotté, or The Hutted Knoll

15 hrs. 46 min.

Language Russian

Author James Fenimore Cooper

Narrator Tatyana Grudneva

Description

The late 18th century is a time of active British expansion into the most remote corners of North America... Fenimore Cooper’s novel “Wyandotte” is based on the story of the life of a settlement of “pale-faces” that arose on the site of former Indian hunting grounds. The fates of the members of the retired captain Hugh Willoughby’s family—along with those of other settlers—turn out to be directly connected with the fate of an Indian Tuscarora, known among the whites as Wyandotte, or Nick-nimble. After a sudden attack by the “redskins,” the settlers show not only endurance and courage, but still—many of them are doomed to die. The characters’ behavior in these extreme circumstances allows them to “reveal themselves” as if anew, and the writer’s close attention to the settlers’ everyday life and customs and to those of the native people makes “Wyandotte” one of Cooper’s most notable works devoted to the theme of settling the New World.