The Deerslayer Schlange", an East German Red Western from DEFA studios, starring Gojko Mitić. 1990: "", a Soviet version. In 1932, the "Leatherstocking Tales" were adapted as a thirteen-part serial radio drama. It is directed and performed by Charles Fredrick Lindsay and contains both "Deerslayer" and "Last of the Mohicans". A made-for-television film was released in 1978. The film was directed by Richard Friedenberg and starred Steve Forrest as Hawkeye. The Deerslayer The Deerslayer, or The First War-path (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and
The Canterbury Tales Chaucer was a courtier, leading some to believe that he was mainly a court poet who wrote exclusively for nobility. "The Canterbury Tales" is generally thought to have been incomplete at the end of Chaucer's life. In the General Prologue, some 30 pilgrims are introduced. According to the Prologue, Chaucer's intention was to write four stories from the perspective of each pilgrim, two each on the way to and from their ultimate destination, St. Thomas Becket's shrine (making for a total of about 120 stories). Although perhaps incomplete, "The Canterbury Tales" is revered as one of the most important works