by James Fenimore Cooper · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620450
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«The Last of the Mohicans» is the historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Set in 1757 during the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry, the novel follows Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, on their dangerous journey to rejoin their father. They are accompanied by Hawkeye, a frontier scout, and the Mohicans Chingachgook and Uncas, while the traitor Magua threatens their lives. Cooper combines heroism and romance with a critique of the destruction of nature and the clash between white civilization and the indigenous world.
It is the second installment of the Leatherstocking Tales. This English-language edition from Penguin Popular Classics, published in 1994, presents the text in paperback.
For readers of classic fiction interested in the colonial history of North America, adventure novels and frontier literature.
James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune. He lived much of his boyhood and his last 15 years in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. Cooper became a member of the Episcopal Church shortly before his death, and contributed generously to it. He attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society.
