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'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. James
Fenimore Cooper was born in 1789 in New Jersey, but later moved to
Cooperstown in New York, where he lived most of his life. His novel The
Last of the Mohicans was one of the most widely read novels in the 19th
century and is generally considered to be his masterpiece. His novels
have been adapted for stage, radio, TV and film.
