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The Last of the Mohicans (Great Illustrated Classics (Playmore)) [Malvina Vogel, James Fenimore Cooper] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Last of the Mohicans (Great Illustrated Classics (Playmore))/5(25). The Last of the Mohicans is set in , in what is now upstate New York near Saratoga Springs, during the French and Indian War. At its start, a young English Major named Duncan Heyward is to assist Cora and Alice Munro, daughters to Colonel Munro, as they travel from Fort Edward (commanded by General Webb) to Fort William Henry (commanded by Col. Munro). Cooper’s works—among them, The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, and The Last of the Mohicans, considered to be his masterpiece—were popular not only with American audiences, but abroad as well, and were translated into many languages. Cooper died the day before his sixty-second birthday, in Cooperstown, New York, the village founded by his father and where he spent much of his www.doorway.ru by:

James Fenimore Cooper, Writer: The Last of the Mohicans. Favorite writer of generations of Americans, Cooper was born on Tuesday, September 15th, , and grew up on his family's huge wooded settlement, in Cooperstown, New York, which his father, William Cooper, a prominent Federalist, had founded before this son's birth. His days as a Yale student were cut short when he was expelled for. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of is a historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in , is its sequel. The Last of the Mohicans is set in , during the French and Indian War (the North American theater of the. Set in during the French and Indian War, as Britain and France fought for control of North America, The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel and a rousing adventure story. It is also, Wayne Franklin argues in his introduction, a probing examination of the political and cultural contest taking shape more than half a century later in the author's own day as European settlement.

About The Last of the Mohicans. Cooper’s most enduringly popular novel combines heroism and romance with powerful criticism of the destruction of nature and tradition. Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry in , The Last of the Mohicans recounts the story of two sisters, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, who are struggling to be reunited with their father. James Fenimore Cooper places the two beautiful Munro sisters in the midst of the the savagery of life on the frontier, dominated by feuding Indian tribes and the relentless European encroachment on the Native American lifestyle. Cooper’s spine-tingling perennial best-seller is an essential part of American culture. Cooper’s works—among them, The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, and The Last of the Mohicans, considered to be his masterpiece—were popular not only with American audiences, but abroad as well, and were translated into many languages. Cooper died the day before his sixty-second birthday, in Cooperstown, New York, the village founded by his father and where he spent much of his life.