The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
←PUBLIC LIBRARYOriginal Title: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Genres: Fiction, Historical fiction
Publisher: Madness Serial Publishing
File version: 1.0
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel, first published in February 1826 and the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.
The story takes place in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of the North American colonies. During this war, the French called on allied Native American tribes to fight against the more numerous British colonists in this region.
Cooper named a principal character Uncas after a well-known Mohegan sachem (a head chief) who had been an ally of the English in 17th-century Connecticut. Cooper seemed to confuse or merge the names of the two tribes—Mohegan and Mahican. Cooper's well-known book helped confuse popular understanding of the tribes to the present day.
The novel was one of the most popular in English in its time, although its length and formal prose style have limited its appeal to later readers, yet The Last of the Mohicans remains widely read in American literature courses.
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