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Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales #2)

by James Fenimore Cooper

3.45 · rating details · 15,870 ratings · 863 reviews

The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns--in part--a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British commander; and their rescue...more

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Published June 30th 2009 by Book Sales, Inc. (first published 1826)

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Jan 18, 2009

Kirk rated it

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I can still remember the edition of this that---somehow---I had in my room as a child. It was a hardback, dense type, the occasional woodcut, thin pages, tightly bound, and it smelled like it had been mouldering under somebody's bed since Martin Van Buren ass-ended to the presidency. Back then I couldn't for the life of me get past the first chapter. The syntax was so knotty (ie. Latinate) that I might have compared it to autoerotic asphyxiation if I'd known such a thing existed (autoeroticism, ...moreI can still remember the edition of this that---somehow---I had in my room as a child. It was a hardback, dense type, the occasional woodcut, thin pages, tightly bound, and it smelled like it had been mouldering under somebody's bed since Martin Van Buren ass-ended to the presidency. Back then I couldn't for the life of me get past the first chapter. The syntax was so knotty (ie. Latinate) that I might have compared it to autoerotic asphyxiation if I'd known such a thing existed (autoeroticism, that is--not asphyxiation). In fact, I hope it doesn't expose my secret propensity for lace panties and Angora sweaters to say that at ten I much preferred Little Women. Yes, I loved Cooper's title bc I didn't know what the hell it meant, and I debated the pretension one might be susceptible to if made to tote the name 'Fenimore' through life. Decades later I can say that life for me boils down to a choice: some books you love because they are you writ in picas, and others you teach. This one falls into the later category.

Personal bullshit aside, there's so much here that's so historically important that LaMo as well call it in my neighborhood call it by necessity becomes worthy of reading time. For starters, landscape. The book is capacious, to use one of Cooper's marble-mouthed words. It conveys the scopic magnitude of the New World. The prowess of setting is particularly important when you realize that by the 1820s---a mere fifty years after the country's founding---nature was already a touchstone of nostalgia and Cooper was depicting us as having milked dry the natural resources of this fresh green breast of the new world. Second, the Native Americans. You don't read Cooper for the verysmellytude of ethnicity. Go see Dances with Wolves for that. (Better yet A Man Called Horse). But you do see in the ridiculously wooden me-likum-you-pale-face cigar-store depiction of Chingachgook and Uncas a sincere desire to elevate the NA warrior, Greek epic style, into a symbol of Lost America---again, poignant given that the Trail of Tears was taking place in this same era. Cooper thus helps make the Vanishing Indian a personfication of American guilt, a spokesman for the jeremiad. Finally, chicks, man: in Cora and Alice, you have here the prototypes for the Dark Lady and Light Lady that will play their sista act out in American fiction all the way through Pierre and The Blithedale Romance on up to every bad Sarah Jessica Parker/Rachel McAdams romantic purported comedy not starring Matthew McConaughey. Why divide feminity into innocent blondes and dirty brunettes? To quote the title of my least favorite Pink CD, must be Mizzacegenation, the anxiety that ravenheads have to be born out of those dalliances on the dark side that even British generals are prone to when the colored girls go do-da-do, doo, doo, dootey-dootey-doo, doo, doo, doo, etc. It's a literary obligation in the 19th century bc Cooper and his peers knew, deep down, that nobody short of Edgar or Johnny Winter was truly white enough.

Yes, at some point long about Book II, the formula of kidnap/rescue/ bring-a-tomahawk-to-a-gunfight gets tedious. And you are likely to throw the book across the room at the more silly assertions of Natty Bumppo and Chingy's ability to blend with the animals. The scene in which the latter, the father of the Mohicans' last, dresses up as a beaver (!!!!!!!!) to get the scoop on the alien tribe's war plans has to be the single hardest scene in American literature to teach without regressing to an eight year-old. It absolutely kills the seriousness of the book---at least until the glorious last chapter, when suddenly Cooper's marvelous ability to lament takes over, and you read a threnody for fallen America that ranks up there with the final paragraph of Gatsby.

So, enjoy, but be prepared to chew through the fat of preposterousness to the gristle of import. None of Cooper's other books save The Pioneers can really touch this one in terms of melancholy. And the melancholy of loss is what makes it great.(less)

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Jul 03, 2007

Ghoulchick rated it

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Man alive, I hated that book. Again, I procrastinated and tried to jam the whole book into one weekend, since I had an oral book review due on Monday for history or social studies or something. God, why can't I even remember the name of the class? My sister will know. It was in high school, junior year, and the teacher - who later became our mayor wtf! - was totally hot. Balding, tan, charismatic, awesome. Every summer, he'd mow his yard. Shirtless. Good god, y'all. And he had a daughte...more

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Dec 29, 2011

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Mar 01, 2009

John rated it

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I have to admit that, having finished this book about a week ago, I still don't know exactly what to make of it. From a pure entertainment perspective, The Last of the Mohicans is essentially the only book I have ever encountered where I feel that the movie adaptation was better. However, this stems from the fact that Cooper was making many powerful statements with this novel, essentially all of which were removed from the film. While the film was mainly just about adventure, the book actually h...more

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Oct 09, 2007

Kate rated it

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Shelves: american-classics

Plot: 1. Hack your way through the forest. 2. Get ambushed by Mohicans. 3. Kill a bunch of Mohicans. 4. Hack your way through more forest. 5. There are those damn Mohicans again. 6. Kill a bunch more Mohicans. 7. start over at #1.

Somebody explain to me how this ever got to be a classic.

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May 29, 2008

Sherrie rated it

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one of my all time favorite books. this is adventure and excitement set to coopers lyrical descriptions. loved it.

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Oct 06, 2009

Tim rated it

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I first read this book when I was a boy, and decided to re-read it to see how it held up. The answer: very well.

In fact, I'd say that this book is a "must-read" for any American. Despite the fact that it's in no-way an accurate depiction of native American culture, it's a great reminder of what our landscape was like when our country was young. (If you're from California, Two Years Before the Mast performs a similar function.) Written in 1826, it was already 75 years pa...moreI first read this book when I was a boy, and decided to re-read it to see how it held up. The answer: very well.

In fact, I'd say that this book is a "must-read" for any American. Despite the fact that it's in no-way an accurate depiction of native American culture, it's a great reminder of what our landscape was like when our country was young. (If you're from California, Two Years Before the Mast performs a similar function.) Written in 1826, it was already 75 years past the events depicted in the story, but upstate New York was still in places very wild. Reading this book, I had a keen sense of what America was once like to the Europeans who were working so hard to turn the wilderness into the kind of world with which they were familiar.

Also fascinating is the book's struggle with racism. Hawkeye keeps referring to himself as being "without a cross." I thought he was referring to some kind of non-Christian deism until late in the book, when I realized it was his way of saying he was of "pure" white blood, despite living with and like the Indians. In this way, the book reminded me a bit of Trollope's Can You Forgive Her, a book that still has the sensibilities of its time, but is struggling to transcend them. As Trollope could see that there was a way of thinking about the rights of women that he couldn't quite support, Cooper sees that there is something special in the ways of the native American, even as he condescends to it.

Yes, the characters are cartoons (apart from Hawkeye, who has a strong "through line"), the plot is sentimental, and the view of native American culture is stereotypical, but there's still a lot here. After all, the point of a book like this isn't its realism, but its ability to mirror the mindset of a time, as experienced by the author and his readers. There is enormous value in a chronicle like this precisely because it shows the prejudices and attitudes and knowledge of its day.

The writing is far better than in The Deerslayer, which I also re-read recently, even though the Deerslayer was written 25 years later (though the events in it take place earlier.) In places, the writing is quite lovely. It's a paean to the glories of early America.

This is also a great, though understated, love story, a story of a love that cannot be accepted by white society.

But most of all, this book is a reminder of the tragedy of America's settlement, that in building our "new world", we destroyed the old world we came to. The image of Chingachgook, last of his tribe, is poignant and powerful. Every American should remember, feel sorrow, and responsibility to make something good to replace what we destroyed.

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Aug 05, 2010

Slayermel rated it

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Recommends it for: anyone who enjoys adventures or books about the American frontier

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This story was amazing but hard to read, mostly because I found the author tended to be a bit wordy and overly descriptive when it came to the surroundings. I would tune out and think about other things then have to re-read the page I just spaced out over.

The story itself was full of action and very interesting characters. The author also included a lot of history, which I really enjoyed. I found the native cultures fascinating especially Uncas and his father who where Mohicans an...more

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Apr 10, 2008

Julie rated it

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Recommends it for: anyone interested in Upstate New York history

Recommended to Julie by: Dad

Shelves: historical-fiction, pre-20th-century-fiction

While not the first, this is certainly the most well-known of the five Leatherstocking Tales written by James Fenimore Cooper. Having seen the movie, I thought I would give the book a try. In addition, living in the Finger Lakes area made this book that much more interesting, because I could easily visualize the landscape behind Cooper's story. I really, really liked the characters. Prior to reading the book I had no idea that Hawkeye and Natty Bumppo were the same person... and it's still a li...more

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Mar 26, 2008

Eli rated it

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I went into Last of the Mohicans knowing that it was by no means an accurate depiction of either the Native cultures or history that occupied so much of the tale. I approached the novel as an entire fabrication, and if anyone else elects to read this book, I strongly urge the same attitude. As to the story itself, I'm torn. Hiding in these pages is a truly great adventure, but the greatness - and sometimes the story itself - is obfuscated by the author's heavy-handed use of language. I sincerely...more

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Dec 06, 2007

Silvana rated it

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Recommends it for: everyone

Shelves: classics, used-to-own

For those who dislike lengthy narrative, detailed description on nature, terrain, wild life and people, they will not find this book entertaining. But those who love good adventure story with not too many shitty romance in it, well, this book might just be the one.

The year was 1757. The British and the French were fighting for land on the north eastern side of the current US soil, bordering with Canada. However, they're not the only ones in feud. The Indian tribe of Huron (Maqua/Iroqo...more For those who dislike lengthy narrative, detailed description on nature, terrain, wild life and people, they will not find this book entertaining. But those who love good adventure story with not too many shitty romance in it, well, this book might just be the one.

The year was 1757. The British and the French were fighting for land on the north eastern side of the current US soil, bordering with Canada. However, they're not the only ones in feud. The Indian tribe of Huron (Maqua/Iroqois) was also in conflict with the Delaware (Lenape). There was already relationship established between the white folks and the red skins, though no full occupation/colonization yet. In the book, the Hurons sided with the French, while the Delaware stayed neutral, if not tend to side with the British. Please note that for unknown reason, Cooper was not being very accurate on this detail.

Anyway, to cut things short, in this time of turbulence, Cora and Alice Munro, the daughters of Colonel Munro, the commander of William Henry Fort, decided to visit their father in his dwelling. They were accompanied by the chivalric Major Heyward and an Indian runner named Magua. Later, they found out that Magua worked with the French and planned to kidnap Cora and Alice because he wanted to seek revenge with Col. Munro due to a past grudge.

Rescue came, in the forms of three men, one is an Indian-wannabe, a skillful scout/rifleman named Hawk-eye and Chingachgook and his son, Uncas, both are the last of the Mohican tribe. The three of them are surely attractive for the readers, especially the Mohicans, who are intriguing enough, yet valiant and noble.

Cora and Alice managed to reunite with their fathers, but it's only for a while. The William Henry Fort was under a siege by the French and finally defeated and the residents were forced to leave. During their flight, a dreadful tragedy occurred, resulted in the second kidnapping of Cora and Alice. This time they were taken to the Huron settlement. Our heroes then started a long journey through the wild (again) to track the women, which finally led to an ultimate face-off between the Hurons and the Delawares.

Critics said that Cooper is the American version of Sir Walter Scott (the author Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and Waverley). Yeah well, maybe. The parlance, the heroine character (Cora reminds me of Rebecca from Ivanhoe, who is not the stereotypical nineteenth-century heroine), the tendency to relate with actual events and historical figures...

Going back to the characters, the most out-spoken one, i.e. Hawk-eye, embodied a soon-to-be-emerged pioneer mentality (it was almost the dawn of "Westward Movement"). He was an individualist, a skeptic, a pragmatist, who loved Chingachgook and Uncas dearly, as well as feared by his enemies, who named him La Longue Carabine (means 'long rifle').

All in all, this is an awesome book about a magnificent race who nearly fades away. A savage civilization or a civilized savagery? Nay, we're all savages in our way.(less)

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Dec 26, 2008

Peter rated it

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The Last of the Mohicans
J. Fenimore Cooper
Purnell and sons Ltd
Printed by Dean & Sons

This is an old book, but nevertheless and fantastic story. It is set in the Americas, where the French and British are in dispute over various territories. The local red-Indian tribes have moved from their traditional hunting grounds, either because they have to, or to follow their new masters.

We start out with a simple journey; two young women are to be escorted home through di...more

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Dec 24, 2011

Suzanne rated it

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I thought this book was a very hard read (for my reading level anyways), although the actually contents of the story were fascinating. It's so amazing to think that this actually happened long ago. It was a bit gory, however, the action scenes were the best part. The main idea of the book is there are these three indians and they're the last of the Mohican clan and they're the good guys. Basically they are trying to get troops to this fort to fight because there is a war, but along the way some ...more

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Dec 17, 2011

Lafcadio rated it

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Let me start by saying that the movie is not only a slightly different story, the movie is a better story. The characters in the movie have more integrity. Also, the movie didn't spend 100 pages describing sticks.

An interesting question surfaced in my original copy of Trivial Pursuit:

Who was the first native American author?

In classic Trivial Pursuit style, the question is worded accurately, but it is very misleading. It is not asking about the first Native (c...more

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Nov 15, 2011

Rrshively rated it

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This is a classic that I don't believe I have ever read. I had enjoyed the movie with Daniel Dey Lewis, however. This book was such a treat that I'm glad that I finally got to it. Because it is loaded with action it is easy to become involved and enjoy the book. While reading this book, I became so interested in the historical background that I looked up General Webb, General Monro, Fort William Henry, and the French and Indian War. Many of these websites referred to The Last of the Mohicans p...more

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Oct 26, 2011

Robin rated it

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I thought this was book 2 in the Leather Stocking Series. When I read The Deerslayer, in some of the intro it stated that this book was #2. Not so much as to when it was written but in chronological order to the age and goings on the main character Natty Bumpo. UM FALSE! I mean if you're going to put that in printing don't you think it would behoove you to get the facts straight? Sheesh. So this is actually book 3 The Pathfinder would be #2 which I'll now have to jump back and read. Sigh.

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Oct 13, 2011

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This was the longest book I have read yet. I thought overall it was pretty good. I chose to read it because I really like the movie that was based on it. The title of the movie was also "The Last of the Mohicans" and it starred Daniel Day Lewis. I thought I knew the story pretty well but the book was different in the things that happened to the characters. My favorite guy was Hawkeye also known as "La Lonuge Caribine". He was the main character although there were several oth...moreThis was the longest book I have read yet. I thought overall it was pretty good. I chose to read it because I really like the movie that was based on it. The title of the movie was also "The Last of the Mohicans" and it starred Daniel Day Lewis. I thought I knew the story pretty well but the book was different in the things that happened to the characters. My favorite guy was Hawkeye also known as "La Lonuge Caribine". He was the main character although there were several others with important parts. Overall, the story was about 3 men, a father, son and adopted son who lived during the colonial period in the wilderness of what is now the state of New York. they sort of got caught up in the French and Indian War by rescuing 2 women and a British soldier who were attacked on a trial to Fort William Henry.

The women were the daughters of Col. Monroe, a British officer. Before the story began in the book, Monroe had attacked a village and killed the children of a Huron indian named Magua. The plot of the story was Magua trying to get revenge on Monroe by killing his daughters. He almost did it when he attacked them on the trial but was stopped by Hawkeye and his adopted family. After guiding them to Fort William Henry, the fort falls to the French and Magua who was on the side of the French again tried to kill the women but they escaped for a bit until they were captured by Magua along with the British officer Major Heyward. Magua was going to give the captives to his chief as a gift. The Chief let Major Heyward go as a gift to the French, but Magua was going to take the women to another Huron village. Hawkeye and his family rescued the Major then the four men went to try and rescue the two women from Magua. There was a big fight where the women, Cora and her sister Alice were killed by the Huron, and Hawkeye's adopted Mohican brother Uncas killed their slayer before he was killed by Magua. Then Hawkeye's adopted father Chingchchook, who was now the Last of the Mohicans killed Magua. (less)

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Oct 06, 2011

James Swenson rated it

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I think this classic novel used to be better than it is now.

Partly, this is because, since Mark Twain famously crucified James Fenimore Cooper in print, I'm afraid to take too much pleasure in anything Cooper wrote. [If you haven't read that review before, go do so now: it is masterful -- and hilarious. "There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now...."]

On the other hand, it's partly becau...more

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Aug 28, 2011

Amy rated it

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I read this book in college and found it very interesting. I had seen the movie Last of the Mohicans (the 90's version with Daniel Day Lewis) with the R-rated stuff edited out. I wanted to read the original.

The feel for the history was amazing. The violence in the book was every bit as graphic as the movie and possibly more. The attitude toward the Native Americans was not PC by our modern sensibilities. It showed the dichotomy between the view of Native Americans as being brutal and u...more

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May 23, 2011

Frank rated it

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Great American Novel

Natty Bumpo, Deerslayer, Hawkeye, Pathfinder, is the quintessential American hero. With Mohicans, Cooper invented the American Hero in 1827. The book was such a huge success that Cooper wrote four more novels taking Hawkeye from birth to death. Each book moves progressively westward as Hawkeye seeks the pristine wilderness.
The national hero of any culture is the embodiment of the qualities as the nation sees itself. As an american hero, Hawkeye is bra...more

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May 09, 2011

Waad added it · review of another edition

I watch the movie then I read the novel although I don't prefer to start with movies. I noticed that there is a huge gap between them! if I'm going to rate them individually I'll give the movie 5/5, but the novel itself 3/5. why ?
the movie contains an awesome landscape which encouraged me to list Canada in my to-visit countries around the world. The waterfalls, the lakes, the forests everything was totally amazing. Furthermore, the movie showed some view of the war between the British and ...more

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May 08, 2011

Sarah rated it

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The last time I read this book was in High School and that was only for my love of Daniel Day Lewis's La longue carabine. As I remembered, the book was vastly [VASTLY] different from the film. This time around, I find the book surprisingly closer to the film than my memory first serves. Racial and gender politics aside, the plot shared more similarities than I expected. Yes, we have Cora and Alice traveling to Fort William Henry and get caught up in Magua's personal vendetta against their father...more

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Mar 06, 2011

Raymond rated it

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Recommends it for: Everyone wanting to understand the American Psyche

An excellent book if one wants to understand the American psyche. It depicts life on the frontier where the battle against potentially brute and savage enemies is around every corner. And, of course, it takes the marine-like soldier and the independent minded scout to save the day.

I don't know how realistic the story actually is when compared to the reality of the French-Indian wars but it reminds me immediately of the all-time popular theme of Hollywood movies and books where tough ...more

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Dec 05, 2010

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Dec 05, 2010

Jonny Claffey rated it

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12-5-10
Read from chapter 1 to chapter 20
time spent actively engaged in reading: a lot (I do not time my self when I read)

I wonder why the British in the fort actually agree to the surrender. I would not trust that the Indians or French, for that matter, would be peaceful and allow me to leave. I know that if a treaty is offered it is the right thing to do if you stand by it but this is a time of war. I would not trust the people. Also why did that Indian try to steal th...more

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Feb 13, 2010

Abe Goolsby rated it

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I really enjoyed this book despite the heavy-handed Romanticism and Cooper's infamous literary quirks and gaffes. The former fault, which rises almost to the level of a sort of proto-pluralism in some instances, is most greatly evidenced in the final chapter, as well as in the interesting exchange between Hawkeye and David Gamut in chapter twelve. As for the latter fault, Mark Twain (though hardly free of literary sins of his own) has delineated them so accurately and humorously in his famous es ...more

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Jul 13, 2009

Jackson rated it

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This is the second, and most popular, volume in Cooper's famed Leatherstocking series which follows the adventures of the early American pioneer Natty Bumppo. In Last of the Mohicans, Bumppo is a middle aged man known to the reader as Hawkeye. The story takes place in the midst of the French and Indian Wars. Hawkeye and his two Mohican Indian cohorts, friendly to the English cause, though against imperialism in general, have befriended an English major who is escorting his General's two daughter...more

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Apr 24, 2009

Christy rated it

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‘Neath the flowery prose lies a great adventure story, if you can follow it. The most horrendous scene is told in such ornate language that you’re not quite sure what happened. But ‘tis no matter. There’s plenty of time to unravel the meaning. You’ll remember that in the Jane Austen books, the girls read “Cooper and Scott (Ivanhoe)” to each other. There was no hurry for the books to end, because evenings were long and entertainment was limited. So don’t expect to finish the story in one ev...more

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Sep 20, 2011

Cruton rated it

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The beginning middle and all but the very end of this book is a load of tripe. The natives in the book are either the very manifestations of heathenism and savagery or rise to the level of noble savage, the trope used depending on who the native and his tribe has allied themselves with, the French or British.
If the Hunter/Scout is speaking you can be sure he is going on about one of the two he will talk about. The first is how awesome he is with a rifle and that if allowed his 'Killdeer', (...moreThe beginning middle and all but the very end of this book is a load of tripe. The natives in the book are either the very manifestations of heathenism and savagery or rise to the level of noble savage, the trope used depending on who the native and his tribe has allied themselves with, the French or British.
If the Hunter/Scout is speaking you can be sure he is going on about one of the two he will talk about. The first is how awesome he is with a rifle and that if allowed his 'Killdeer', (yes, his rifle has its own name) could solve whatever problem it is that the party is experiencing. His second topic is how he isn't a Christian which gives him the ability to live much more like the natives and gives him some of their supernatural powers of tracking, hunting, and general survivalist skills.
The two women in the novel are the flowers of cultured civilization whose, beauty, piety, and culture render them completely unable to defend themselves against anything. The book goes to great lengths to convince the reader of exactly how helpless these two are including at one point how their caretakers had to be sure to get them well indoors at night because the slightest trace of dew would certainly kill them. Needless to say I spent the entirety of the book rooting for them to die saving me from their uselessness.
They were joined in being useless by the pious Psalmist, David. As a side note: is that even a real occupation? Anyway, he is proof of providence and the superiority and righteousness of the Christian God and unspeakably irritating. I wanted this guy to die as well.
Open Hand is very much the young Victorian military officer who is refined to seduce woman and manly to kill the savages.
Plot wise I don't get the here are these absolutely useless people who are going to get killed because they are idiots lets help them time and time again without any gain or remuneration to ourselves motivation. I also totally do not buy the whole bear and then beaver costume where the thing is so life like it fools everyone into believing it is a real bear or beaver. I've seen a man in a bear costume, it just doesn't work like that.
I expected all the savages to die and the good guys to win the day and live happily ever after, and the only part of the book I did enjoy was the unexpectedly tragic ending.
Despite being severely underwhelmed by the book I am told the movie is worth seeing.(less)

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Jul 03, 2011

Lindsay rated it

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This was quite a difficult book to read. The actual events and story portrayed were full of action, but they were dulled by the authors writing style.

The characters were made to fit certain molds with all the heroes full of honour (to the point of not lying down in a canoe when they were being shot at, with no real reason for them to stay sitting, because it would have been unmanly) and the heroines attempting to be brave by submitting to their circumstances without fainting or comp...more

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James Fenimore Cooper was a popular and prolific American writer. He is best known for his historical novel The Last of the Mohicans, one of the Leatherstocking Tales stories, and he also wrote political fiction, maritime fiction, travelogues, and essays on the American politics of the time. His daughter Susan Fenimore Cooper was also a writer.

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“Stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you. I will find you!” — 11 people liked it

“Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.” — 2 people liked it

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