Le Dernier des Mohicans (French Edition)

Der amerikanische Schriftsteller James Fenimore Cooper veröffentlichte im Jahr 1826 den zweiten Teil seiner Lederstrumpf-Reihe mit dem Titel Der letzte Mohikaner. Angelehnt an historische Ereignisse erzählt der Autor in seinem historischen Roman aus der Zeit des Siebenjährigen Krieges und der Kämpfe zwischen Engländern und Franzosen um die Vorherrschaft in Nordamerika wie auch über die Vertreibung und den Untergang der indianischen Völker durch europäische Siedler.

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Ce texte fait partie du « Roman de Bas de Cuir », vaste épopée en cinq volumes qui nous narre la conquête de l'Ouest, les guerres entre les indiens et la blancs, les pionniers, pendant la seconde moitié du 18e siècle. 

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Le Lac Ontario

It is 1757 and the Seven Years' War, waged between the British and French colonies, has torn across western New York. Colonel Munro, who holds charge of the British Fort William Henry, believes he is sending his daughters away from danger with a Native American escort named Magua. But when Magua abducts the girls, Natty Bumppo, also known as Hawkeye, and his Mohican companions, Uncas and Chingachook, witness the cowardly act and set out rescue the two Munro sisters. James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans remains a highly regarded historical account of colonization in the Americas and the effects of European migration on the indigenous population. While commonly studied in the classroom, Cooper's work has also been adapted for the stage, opera, and film, most famously in the 1992 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Last of the Mohicans - Leatherstocking Tales Volume 2

Vie d'Harvey Birch, espion de George Washington, lors de la guerre de 1776, en Amérique opposant la domination anglaise aux Américains désireux d'obtenir leur indépendance. Après une vie pleine de péripéties, nous retrouvons notre héros trente trois ans plus tard, lors d'une autre guerre entre anglais et américains, où il trouvera la mort.

L'Espion (Un épisode de la guerre d'Indépendance)

« Le roman de Bas de Cuir » est une vaste épopée en cinq volumes qui a pour décor le continent nord-américain, pour personnages les tribus indiennes, et pour contexte social les guerres et la migration vers l'ouest, de 1740 à 1805. Elle est dominée par la haute figure de Natty Bumppo. Enfant de pionniers blancs, ce dernier a été élevé par les Delaware, les « bons » Indiens (alliés des Anglais...) qui s'opposent aux cruels Iroquois (associés aux Français...). « Les Pionniers » est le premier paru de ce cycle, en 1823, mais son action se situe en 1794, c'est à dire après celle du « Tueur de daims » - 1745, du « Dernier des Mohicans » - 1757 et du « Lac Ontario » - 1759. 

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Les Pionniers

En 1757, alors que la guerre franco-anglaise fait rage, Cora et Alice, accompagnées du major Heyward, partent rejoindre leur père, le colonel Munro, mais se fourvoient dans les épaisses forêts nord-américaines. Deux Indiens, Chingachgook et son fils Uncas, ainsi qu'un chasseur blanc, Oeil-de-Faucon, leur viennent en aide pour affronter les dangers que recèle ce territoire hostile. La surprenante relation de confiance qui se noue entre eux rendra d'autant plus tragique la destinée des Mohicans... Dans Le Dernier des Mohicans, paru en 1826, JamesFenimore Cooper allie avec brio la prestance du roman historique à l'énergie du récit d'aventures. De Balzac aux frères Goncourt, en passant par George Sand et Dumas, le Tout-Paris fut pris de «Coopermania» à la lecture de cette épopée d'outre-Atlantique : l'Amérique, sauvage et impétueuse, était redécouverte.

Le dernier des Mohicans

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 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.

The Last of the Mohicans

It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the information necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or in the accompanying notes. Still there is so much obscurity in the Indian traditions, and so much confusion in the Indian names, as to render some explanation useful.

Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste. These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic.

It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin. There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opinion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.

The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself, and while his cheek-bones have a very striking indication of a Tartar origin, his eyes have not. Climate may have had great influence on the former, but it is difficult to see how it can have produced the substantial difference which exists in the latter. The imagery of the Indian, both in his poetry and in his oratory, is oriental; chastened, and perhaps improved, by the limited range of his practical knowledge. He draws his metaphors from the clouds, the seasons, the birds, the beasts, and the vegetable world. In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imaginative race would do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself.

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