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The Last of the Mohicans (Signet Classic)

The Last of the Mohicans (Signet Classic) Mass market paperback - 2000

by Cooper, James Fenimore

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New York: Signet, 2000. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 4x0x6. Reprint. Faint edge wear. 2000 Mass Market Paperback. Two beautiful sisters make a perilous journey through the wilderness to Fort William Henry at the height of the French and Indian War, accompanied by Hawkeye, the frontier scout, and his Mohican companions, Chingachcook and Uncas.
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  • Title The Last of the Mohicans (Signet Classic)
  • Author Cooper, James Fenimore
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 3
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet, New York
  • Date 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2330350
  • ISBN 9780451527653 / 0451527658
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.9 x 4.18 x 0.76 in (17.53 x 10.62 x 1.93 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Frontier and pioneer life
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About this book

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimoore Cooper is the second and best-known book of his Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy. Like the rest of the books in the series, the story follows the adventures of Natty Bumppo, nicknamed “Hawkeye” by his Native American friends. Set in 1757 in the American wilderness that would become New York State, The Last of the Mohicans takes place during the Seven Years' War (known in America as the French and Indian War). The book is widely read in American Literature courses, particularly in discussions of westward expansion and Native American assimilation, although Cooper himself was considered sympathetic towards Native Americans.

Summary

The classic tale of Hawkeye—Natty Bumppo—the frontier scout who turned his back on "civilization," and his friendship with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters through the dangerous wilderness of Indian country in frontier America.

From the publisher

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) grew up at Otsego Hall, his father’s manorial estate near Lake Otsego in upstate New York. Educated at Yale, he spent five years at sea, as a foremast hand and then as a midshipman in the navy. At thirty he was suddenly plunged into a literary career when his wife challenged his claim that he could write a better book that the English novel he was reading to her. The result was Precaution (1820), a novel of manners. His second book, The Spy (1821), was an immediate success, and with The Pioneers (1823) he began his series of Leatherstocking Tales. By 1826 when The Last of the Mohicans appeared, his standing as a major novelist was clearly established. From 1826 to 1833 Cooper and his family lived and traveled in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. Two of his most successful works, The Prairie and The Red Rover, were published in 1827. He returned to Otsego Hall in 1834, and after a series of relatively unsuccessful books of essays, travel sketches, and history, he returned to fiction – and to Leatherstocking – with The Pathfinder (1840) and The Deerslayer (1841). In his last decade he faced declining popularity brought on in part by his waspish attacks on critics and political opponents. Just before his death in 1851 an edition of his works led to a reappraisal of his fiction and somewhat restored his reputation as the first of American writers.

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First Edition Identification

The Last of the Mohicans was first published in two volumes by H.C. Carey & I. Lea in Philadelphia in 1826. First editions contain a number of identifiable points of issue including page 89 mispaged 93 and bound after page 91/92 and Chapter XVI numbered XIV in Volume I (page 243). First editions of The Last of the Mohicans have sold for $15,000 to $30,000.

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