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The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)

by James Fenimore Cooper (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam USA; Reissue edition (1 Jan 1920)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553213296
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553213294
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,245,633 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"[Cooper's] sympathy is large, and his humor is as genuine--and as perfectly unaffected--as his art."-- Joseph Conrad


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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 centre 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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the wait, 17 Sep 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: The Last of the Mohicans (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
First a confession: 'The Last of the Mohicans' had been on my bookshelf for four years and I'd never got past the third chapter. But with a five week break between jobs, I knew that if I didn't read it now, I never would. The first half of the book is slow, and Cooper's language is not easy on the modern eye. As other reviewers have pointed out, the plot does seem in places tenuous and the narrative over descriptive, but the book's strength is the brilliant characterisation. Despite the setting, as the story develops, the reader can identify strongly with the hopes and fears of the main characters. My fear on first opening this book that it would be irrelevant to my life proved wrong.

This book may be hard-going, but it's worth reading. You need to take some time over it and persevere with the first half, but when you finish the book you'll feel it was worth it.

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Glimpse of REAL adventure, itellectual;not for movie addicts, 11 April 1999
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This review is from: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (Hardcover)
This is a masterpiece that not only narrates action but explores minds and motives. If you have never read and enjoyed Dickens and Melville; don't bother with this one; it requires a reader with a brain. I was shocked by the first reviews here, and thought: "Are these readers so egotistical as to think that people prior to the baby boom and going back 200 years didn't really talk like that, reason fluently in a crisis, or have deep thoughts about the meaning of life?" People facing death do actually THINK (a lot) during the calm moments. This book is not always politically correct, but it is honest to a fault. It is not designed to be a romance novel; rather a novel in which romance (not sex) occurs. I HATED the movie because it tried to do a lot of anti-war, anti-imperialist moralizing.(Hollywood has no sense of history.) Did you ever read a story and think:"This story is not believable. Like--when did these characters ever go to the toilet?" This story is not like that. Yes it does slow down sometimes but so does life!
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing yet Endearing, 25 Aug 1999
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This review is from: The Last of the Mohicans (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
If you're looking for the literary equivalent of the Daniel Day-Lewis epic then look elsewhere. The story is at times stiflingly boring and some events seem unlikely despite the era in which the book was written. However, staying-power won't have been mis-appropriated if you just stick with it. In fact towards the end it becomes heart-breakingly beautiful to the point of becoming a tear-jerker. Worth the wade through boring descriptions and confusing characters.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A classic tale that will outlive its readers
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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent!
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If you've read this book without Wyeth's illustrations, you've really missed something. His ability to capture the violence and vibrancy of the scenes depicted is amazing. Read more
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