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The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

Cooper, James Fenimore
McWilliams, John

Paperback

Series: Oxford World's Classics

Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $11.95

ISBN10: 0199538190
ISBN13: 9780199538195
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 15 2009
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.74
Language: English
The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. It's success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, and partly in his evocation of the wild beautiful landscapes of North America which the French and the British fought to control throughout the eighteenth century. At the center of the novel is the celebrated Massacre' of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality, and heroism, in which the destiny of the Mohicans Chingachgook and his son Uncas is inseparable from the lives of Alice and Cora Munro and of Hawkeye the frontier scout. The controlled, elaborate writing gives natural pace to the violence of the novel's action: like the nature whose plundering Copper laments, the books placid surfaces conceal inexplicable and deathly forces.

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