The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757
1826
The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757
1826
The Last of the Mohicans pulses with the violence and beauty of a young nation's birth trauma. Set in 1757 during the French and Indian War, Cooper's masterpiece follows Hawkeye, a white woodsman raised among the Mohicans, and his two friends: Chingachgook and Uncas, the last of their tribe. When the Munro sisters are captured during a wilderness journey, Hawkeye and his Mohican companions embark on a rescue mission that plunges them into the chaos of colonial warfare, where every side has blood on its hands. The novel hurtles toward a devastating climax at Fort William Henry, where loyalty is tested, identities are revealed, and the price of survival is paid in blood. What elevates this beyond frontier adventure is Cooper's elegiac awareness of what is being lost. The Mohicans represent a dying world, their forests giving way to European armies, their way of life erased by the tide of civilization. This is the story of America's first broken promise, told through chases and scalping parties, through friendship and treachery, through the last of a noble people.
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“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.””
— James Fenimore Cooper
“Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!””
— James Fenimore Cooper
“Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?””
— James Fenimore Cooper
“I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.””
— James Fenimore Cooper
“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.””
— James Fenimore Cooper
“Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.””
— James Fenimore Cooper
“No! You stay alive! Submit, do you hear? You're strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you . . . (Hawkeye / The Last of the Mohicans) 97””
— James Fenimore Cooper
“My day has been too long. In the morning I saw the sons of the Unamis happy and strong; and yet, before the sun has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans.””
— James Fenimore Cooper
“The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste””
— James Fenimore Cooper
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