The Last of the Mohicans (AmazonClassics Edition)

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Amazon Publishing, Dec 5, 2017 - Fiction - 462 pages

Fast-paced and suspenseful, The Last of the Mohicans follows an intrepid group of frontiersmen and Native Americans as they navigate the rugged terrain of both the landscape and their racial differences. Together they strive to deliver Colonel Munro's two daughters to safety at Fort William Henry during the French and Indian War.

Widely considered the first "Great American Novel," James Fenimore Cooper's classic encapsulates the violence and beauty, tragedy and heroism at the heart of the American frontier, set against the stunning backdrop of the northern New York wilderness.

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Revised edition: Previously published as The Last of the Mohicans, this edition of The Last of the Mohicans (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

About the author (2017)

Hailing from Burlington, New Jersey, James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was one of the most popular American authors of the early nineteenth century. A writer of historical romances about frontier and American Indian life, Cooper was also influenced by his early career as a midshipman in the US Navy. Cooper's works--among them, The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, and The Last of the Mohicans, considered to be his masterpiece--were popular not only with American audiences, but abroad as well, and were translated into many languages. Cooper died the day before his sixty-second birthday, in Cooperstown, New York, the village founded by his father and where he spent much of his life.

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