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The movie is much better than the book, no doubt about that.
The illustrated version is available for free download at Gutenberg Project
Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
"Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun."
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1933
Copyright, 1919, by Charles Scribner's Sons
Page 26:
UNCAS SLAYS A DEER
Avoiding the horns of the infuriated animal, Uncas
darted to his side, and passed his knife across the throat
Page 66:
THE BATTLE AT GLENS FALLS
Each of the combat ...more
The illustrated version is available for free download at Gutenberg Project
Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
"Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun."
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1933
Copyright, 1919, by Charles Scribner's Sons
Page 26:
UNCAS SLAYS A DEER
Avoiding the horns of the infuriated animal, Uncas
darted to his side, and passed his knife across the throat
Page 66:
THE BATTLE AT GLENS FALLS
Each of the combat ...more
I first read this book I think when I was about ten or eleven, and found it exciting and, indeed, a great inspiration to the cowboys and Indians games my generation of boys played out in the woods behind our houses. Literary merit meant nothing to us if we could track the deep woods (in fact a wooded gulley only a few hundred feet wide, but it was a world to us) following in the footsteps of Hawkeye and rescuing the fair maidens (played, of course, by my best friend's sisters).
Returning to it si ...more
Returning to it si ...more
Classic American stories are part of our lives. We read books on them, references in television series, and watch movies on them. But when we read the actual classic, we find that what we thought it was about is slightly different. The Last of the Mohicans is no different.
James Fenimore Cooper wrote a classic that is read in most schools across the country. It’s the story of 2 young English women on a journey to see their father who is a leader in the British Army. With an escort of British mili ...more
James Fenimore Cooper wrote a classic that is read in most schools across the country. It’s the story of 2 young English women on a journey to see their father who is a leader in the British Army. With an escort of British mili ...more
You know, it reminded me of those old western adventure comics that I used to pick from the shelves of boy relatives. I quickly changed them to Batman and Superman. Like I did with this one, quickly changed to another book (I'd been reading it for days but I never made it through halfway). It was just too boring for me to handle. A more engaging story and the message would have come across better, too.
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Just not fun to read.
The characters were accurate and thorough. (As humans...not getting into Native American depictions.) The plot moved along and the story compelling. But OMG I hated slogging through all those words.
The characters were accurate and thorough. (As humans...not getting into Native American depictions.) The plot moved along and the story compelling. But OMG I hated slogging through all those words.
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