Hawk-eye leads the party to a cave, were they are save. They were betrayed by their Indian guide Magua, Le Renard Subtil, and saved by Hawk-eye, Nattty Bumppo, and his Indian friends, Chingachgook and his son Uncas. The company is joined by David Gamut, a church singer. In 1757, during the American wars between the French and the English, major Duncan Heyward is taking Cora and Alice to their father, the leader of Fort William Henry. ( Shakespeare)Īnd saw the lion’s shadow ere himself. Well go thy way thou shall not from this grove. Before these fields were shorn and tilledĪnd fountains spouted in the shade (Bryant)Ĥ. Sola, sola, woha, ho, sola! (Shakespeare)ģ. The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfolld:Ģ. He and his son Uncas are the last of the tribe of the Mohicans, and after Uncas was murdered Chingachgook was the last of the Mohicans.Īt the beginning of every chapter are a few lines, but since there are 33 chapters, I’ll only give the first five.ġ. With The Last of the Mohicans Chingachgook, the Indian, is meant. He died at Otsego Hall, on September 14, 1851. During the last decades of his life Cooper was earning less from his books but was forced to go on writing for income. In the beginning of the 1820s Cooper lived in New York. In chronological order: The Last of the Mohicans, 1826, The prairie, 1827 The Pathfinder, 1840, and The Deerslayer, 1841. After that he started his famous Leatherstocking series, about Hawk- eye. Cooper’s first novel Precaution was an imitation of Jane Austen’s novels and his second The Spy was based in Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly Series, but brought him fame and wealth. Cooper settled in Westchester, living on his wife’s land. Two years later he married Susan Augusta De Lancey. Upon his father’s death in 1809, Cooper became financially independent. He joined the navy and in 1808 he received a warrant as a midshipman. Cooper was expelled from Yale, because of a prank.

The family moved to Cooperstown, New York, which Judge Cooper had founded. His father was a representative of the 4th and 6th Congress and had attained wealth by developing virgin land. Typeset in the UK by R&B Creative Services Ltd.Ĭover design by Robert Mathias, Publishing Workshop.Ĭover illustration is a scene from the movie The Last of the Mohicans by Thomas Cole(1802- 1848).Ĭooper was born at Burlington, New Jersey in 1789 as the son of Quakers, Judge William Cooper and Elisabeth Fenimore Cooper. The book was printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham plc, Chatham. The edition I used was published in 1993 by Wordsworth Editions Limited Cumberland House, Crib Street, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 9ET. The book I am going to tell something about is The last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. Boekverslag : James Fenimore Cooper - The Last Of The Mohicansĭe taal ervan is Nederlands en het aantal woorden bedraagt 1505 woorden.

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