Fiction · 1826
The Last of the Mohicans
A Narrative of 1757
In the summer of 1757, with France and Britain fighting for North America, two sisters travelling to their father at Fort William Henry are led into the forest by a guide who means to betray them, and taken up by the scout known as Hawkeye and his companions Chingachgook and Uncas, the last two of their people.
James Fenimore Cooper published the novel in 1826, the second written of the five Leatherstocking Tales. It is the most read of them and the book that gave American fiction its first lasting frontier hero — as well as a portrait of Native peoples that later readers have had good reason to argue with.
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Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII
- Chapter XXVIII
- Chapter XXIX
- Chapter XXX
- Chapter XXXI
- Chapter XXXII
- Chapter XXXIII
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1789–1851 · Romantic
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) was born at Burlington, New Jersey, and brought up at Cooperstown, the settlement his father founded in upstate New York. He was expelled from Yale, served in the merchant marine and the navy, and began to write at thirty. The five Leatherstocking Tales — The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie, The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer (1841) — are his monument; he also wrote sea novels and a naval history of the United States.
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