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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...

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Written in 1826, but set in 1757, The Last of the Mohicans portrays ordinary men and women caught in the crossfires of the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. Featuring double agents, dastardl...

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Den siste mohikanen (1826) är den bästa av Coopers romaner i Skinnstrumpa-serien. Den serien kan sägas vara ansvarig för att ha populariserat indianboken som självständig genre. Coopers böcker fortsätter att vara några av de mest lästa romanerna i...

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Djupt inne i skogarna i nordöstra Amerika har en engelsk major fått i uppdrag att eskortera de två överstedöttrarna Cora och Alice från Fort Edward till Fort William Henry. När de blir förrådda av sin vägvisare Magua får de hjälp av den modiga spe...

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Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native...

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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...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Set in the 1740s, just after the start of the French and Indian wars, James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer tells the story of a young Natty Bumppo, most fam...

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Originally published in 1823, The Pioneers is the first of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town of the American frontier. The heart of the novel is a conflict...

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Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook. As the savageries of war test these exiled men, t...

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As part of the series of Leatherstocking tales, this story chronicles the career of Natty Bumppo - hunter, scout, pathfinder and trapper, and aims to reflect the aspirations and disappointments of America's expansionist movement. Cooper (1879-1851...

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Set in the 1740's, early in the French and Indian wars, this book follows the adventures of Natty Bumppo, or Leatherstocking, as a young hunter of 20, of his friendship with the mohican Chingachook, and his blighted love affair with Judith Hutter.

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Continues the adventures of Natty Bumppo, the woodsman and champion of the Indians. This is the fourth book of "Leather-stocking Tales" by J.Femimore Cooper, author of "The Deerslayer", "Last of the Mohicans", "T...

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This novel centres around Harry Birch, a man wrongly suspected of being a spy for the British. His character is misread time and time again - a parable for the American experience, as well as a reminder that the nations's survival depends on judgi...

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The Deerslayer (1841) is the last-written of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, but the first in the development of the hero, Natty Bumppo. Here, Cooper returns Leatherstocking to his youth and to a pristine wilderness that D. H. Lawrence said was pe...

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The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian chara...

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The Deerslayer (1841) is the last-written of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, but the first in the development of the hero, Natty Bumppo. Here, Cooper returns Leatherstocking to his youth and to a pristine wilderness that D. H. Lawrence said was pe...

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is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities, and exciting, fully dramatized audio for every story, the new edition of the series makes ...

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The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian chara...

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The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Na...

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The tale of two sisters' journey through the wilderness to Fort William Henry is set during the French and Indian War.

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1. Though The Deerslayer is the last of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published, its events actually occur first chronologically. How, if at all, does this inform the tone of the novel? 2. Discuss the role of the landscape and the role of women ...

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One of the most popular novels of early American literature, "The Last of the Mohicans" helped to establish James Fenimore Cooper as one of the first great and world-famous American authors. The second and best known novel in the "L...

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A massacre at a colonial garrison, the kidnapping of two pioneer sisters by Iroquois tribesmen, the treachery of a renegade brave, and the ambush of innocent settlers create an unforgettable picture of American frontier life in this imaginative, i...

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The last of the five Leatherstocking tales recalls Natty Bumpo's adventures as a young man among the Delaware Indians of New York State.

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The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bu...

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Illus. in black-and-white. This action-packed edition of James Fenimore Cooper's famous adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French and Indian War to vivid life.  

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Set during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the essence of both the murderous humanity and the natural beauty that distinguished America’s founding. The last of Cooper’s famous Leatherstocking Tales, it is fi...

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We have heard of those who fancied that they beheld a signal instance of the hand of the Creator in the celebrated cataract of Niagara.

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