

The Last of the Mohicans
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Narrator: Bill Weideman
Unabridged: 14 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: The Classic Collection
Published: 05/19/2015
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Narrator: Bill Weideman
Unabridged: 14 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: The Classic Collection
Published: 05/19/2015
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American novelist whose works include The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer, collectively known as The Leatherstocking Tales.
What can one say about Cooper? His historical imagination is profound, his creative use of the gothic landscape is uniquely American, and his influence on plot and characterization in American fiction--including, I recently discovered, South American fiction--is pervasive and extensive. Yet his dict......more
Note: I've just edited this review slightly to correct a chronological typo. When I read this book the first time, I was nine, not seven years old --I knew, when I wrote the first draft of this review, that I was in 4th grade the first time, so I don't know what I was thinking when I typed "seven!" T......more