The Last of the Mohicans, sometimes also translated as The Last of the Mohicans (Original English title, The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757) is a historical novel by American author James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826 . This is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and best known. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel.
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Dominoes are readers for younger students offering integrated activities, ideal for individual study or reading practice in class. The Audio CD Packs contain a copy of the book plus a CD of the complete text. The year is 1757. The English and the French are at war in North America. Two sisters, Cora and Alice, want to visit their father, General Munro. They begin their dangerous journey with the handsome English officer, Duncan Heyward and the Indian guide, Magua. On the way they meet friends and enemies, and many adventures. Some people will be heroes and some people will die. And what will happen to their friend Uncas, the last of the Mohican Indians?
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. Its 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.
