Lederstrumpfbrunnen the German editions of the novels. The fountain was designed between 1987 and 1990 by the German sculptor Gernot Rumpf. Lederstrumpfbrunnen The Lederstrumpfbrunnen (literally: "leatherstocking fountain") is a fountain in the German city of Edenkoben. It commemorates the frontiersman Johann Adam Hartmann (1748-1836), who was born in this city and considered by some as a possible inspiration for the character Natty Bumppo of the Leatherstocking Tales novels by the American writer James Fenimore Cooper. The three main sculptures around the fountain are Hartman/Bumppo depicted as a hunter with a rifle and accompanied by a dog, the Indian chief Chingachgook (another
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Fall of the House of Usher". A distant relative of Poe, modern scholar Harry Lee Poe, wrote that "grotesque" means "horror", which is gory and often disgusting, and "arabesque" means "terror", which forsakes the blood and gore for the sake of frightening the reader. Even so, accurately defining Poe's intentions for the terms is difficult and subdividing his tales into one category or another is even more difficult. "Vol. I" "Vol. II" Poe later revised several of these tales and republished them under new titles: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection