The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper · first published 1826
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The classic tale of Hawkeye—Natty Bumppo—the frontier scout who turned his back on "civilization," and his friendship with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters through the dangerous wilderness of Indian country in frontier America.
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…'McTeague' by Frank Norris. 1. All The Kings Men, Robert Penn Warren. 2. Most novels by Sinclair Lewis. 3. Novels of John O Hara 4. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dresier. 5. Little Big Man by Thomas Berger. 6. Last of the Mohicans by Fenimore Cooper.
on “Larry McMurtry has died” ↗…complex, but grammatically so, rather than the sort of existentialist run-on nonsense with which we're latterly so often abused. Here, as a reasonably representative example, is the first paragraph of The Last of the Mohicans [1]: > It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently…
on “The Benjamin Franklin Method: How to Be a Better Writer” ↗Also see Mark Twain's "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences"[1], reviewing some of the works of James Fenimore Cooper (of "The Last of the Mohicans" fame). A sample: In his little box of stage properties he kept six or eight cunning devices, tricks, artifices for his savages and woodsmen to deceive and circumvent each other with, and he was…
on “Time Machine: H.L. Mencken's 1925 Review of 'The Great Gatsby'” ↗…fictional works. Pride and Prejudice was published in 01813, Frankenstein was first published in 01818, Rip Van Winkle was published in 01819, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was published in 01820, The Last of the Mohicans was published in 01826, Self-Reliance was published in 01841, The Cask of Amontillado was published in 01846. Maybe Rowling doesn't rise to the level of Austen, but I'd definitely put her above Washington…
on “Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died” ↗