The Last of the Mohicans
Bilingual Edition: English-French
Published on 19. February 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
686 pages
978-0-9864006-0-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 was published in 1826, the second and most popular in a series of five books by James Fenimore Cooper that make up the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, a series featuring the American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. This installment follows Natty, or Hawkeye, and his Delaware Indian companions as they escort the daughters of an English colonel to Fort William Henry in the wild frontier of New York during the Seven Years' War. This second novel in the series has been adapted for many films, TV, radio, opera, and comics, and continues to be the most popular of all of Cooper's works.
This bilingual edition is designed to assist those learning French. The original English text appears on the left-hand pages of the book, with the corresponding French translation on the right-hand pages.
Other bilingual books available from Sleeping Cat Press:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
Candide
Shakespeare's Sonnets
New Fairy Tales for Small Children
The Tales of Mother Goose
The Count of Monte Cristo (Unabridged, Vols 1–4)
Madame Bovary
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
1096 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9864006-0-5 (9780986400605)
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James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. He lived most of his life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William on property that he owned. Cooper was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church and, in his later years, contributed generously to it.
Before embarking on his career as a writer, he served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman, which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about counterespionage set during the Revolutionary War and published in 1821. He also wrote numerous sea stories and his best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among naval historians, Cooper's works on the early U.S. Navy have been well received, but they were sometimes criticized by his contemporaries. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.