The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.’Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper’s story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron tribe, they soon meet Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his Mohican Indian companions Chingachgook and Uncas.Magua is not all that he seems and the sisters are kidnapped. In The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper sets Indian tribe against Indian tribe and lays bare the brutality of the white man against the Mohicans.

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

James Fenimore Cooper

CONTENTS

Cover (#u880121e9-1a7e-5afc-851a-aded03af58ae)

Title Page (#u9679f43e-23f5-52f0-9367-d4a13be2c2fa)

Author’s Introduction (#u0162bb63-1e9e-5cfe-b045-a9a3431d9404)

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Chapter 2 (#ue6af83b5-1aec-50d3-986f-47b51139fb0b)

Chapter 3 (#uc4c20cf1-6611-52ed-818d-cc5df8e1b5a8)

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Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 32 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)

Appendix A (#litres_trial_promo)

CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES (#litres_trial_promo)

History of Collins (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

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AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION (#ulink_00a1734a-6b10-5285-ac90-17f13b2a853c)

It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the information necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or in the accompanying notes. Still, there is so much obscurity in the Indian traditions, and so much confusion in the Indian names, as to render some explanation useful.

Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste. These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people, as to be characteristic.