The complete online text of The Headsman by James Fenimore Cooper.

Throughout much of the nineteenth century James Fenimore Cooper was one of the most widely read novelists in the world and one of the most highly acclaimed. During his lifetime a series of well-publicized quarrels with his country caused his prestige to...

One hundred and fifty years ago Cooper was one of the world's most widely read novelists and one of the most highly acclaimed. During his lifetime a number of well-publicized quarrels with his country caused his prestige to suffer, but at his death in 18...

One hundred and fifty years ago Cooper was one of the world's most widely read novelists and one of the most highly acclaimed. During his lifetime a number of well-publicized quarrels with his country caused his prestige to suffer, but at his death in 18...

(AUSTRIA-SWITZERLAND-GERMANY-LUXEMBOURG-HUHGARY-U.K.) An Allegro Film (Austria) presentation, in association with T&C Film (Switzerland)/Home Run Pictures (Germany)/Samsa Film (Luxembourg)/Eurofilm Studio (Hungary)/Film & Music Entertainment (U.K.). (International sales: Atrix Films, Munich; Sola Media, Stuttgart.) Produced by Helmut Grasser. Directed by Simon Aeby. Screenplay, Susanne...

Capricious politics and bare bottoms collide in Kornel Hamvai's deliciously anarchic "Headsman's Holiday," a Hungarian play that's getting a bright and bawdy staging in its American premiere at Theater Alliance. The story is a romp through revolutionary France in the heyday of the guillotine;...