Le Dernier des Mohicans (The Last of the Mohicans) est un roman historique americain de James Fenimore Cooper, publie pour la premiere fois en janvier 1826. Un extraordinaire roman historique a l'epoque de la naissance des Etats-Unis. Une aventure qui permet de decouvrir la vie sauvage et les derniers Indiens.

Le Dernier Des Mohicans

The first book in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Deerslayer is the exciting tale of the Deerslayer-known by name as Natty Bumppo-a young white man raised by a Delaware Indian tribe in the pre-revolutionary American colonies. Forced to kill for the first time in battle, Natty is tortured by his Huron captors and comes to oppose many of the customs and practices of his tribesmen. The Deerslayer, though written after the first four books in the Leatherstocking Tales, takes place before the events of The Last of the Mohicans and is considered to be the first of the series. The Deerslayer has been adapted for film, radio, and television. 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.

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A historical adventure reminiscent of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley romances, Cooper’s novel centers on Harvey Birch, a common man suspected of being a spy for the British.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

L'espion

Vie d'Harvey Birch, espion de George Washington, lors de la guerre de 1776, en Amerique opposant la domination anglaise aux Americains desireux d'obtenir leur independance. Apres une vie pleine de peripeties, nous retrouvons notre heros trente trois ans plus tard, lors d'une autre guerre entre anglais et americains, ou il trouvera la mort."

L'Espion: Un épisode de la Guerre d'Indépendance

The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826.

It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time. Its narrative flaws were criticized from the start, and its length and elaborately formal prose style have reduced its appeal to later readers. Regardless, The Last of the Mohicans is widely read in American literature courses. This second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy is the best known. The Pathfinder, written 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel.

Cooper named a principal character Uncas after the most famous of the Mohicans. The real Mohicans lived in the colony of Connecticut in the mid-seventeenth century, and not in the New York frontier a century later. Uncas was a Mohegan, not a Mohican, and Cooper's usage has helped to confuse the names of two tribes to the present day. When John Uncas, his last surviving male descendant died in 1842, the Newark Daily Advertiser wrote "Last of the Mohegans Gone" lamenting the extinction of the tribe. The writer was not aware that Mohegans still existed then and to the present day.

The story takes place in 1757 during the Seven Years' War (known in America as the French and Indian War), when France and the United Kingdom battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. During this war, the French often allied themselves with Native American tribes in order to gain an advantage over the British, with unpredictable and often tragic results.

The Last of the Mohicans

Le derniers des Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

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Le Dernier des Mohicans est un roman historique américain publié pour la première fois en janvier 1826. Deuxième des cinq ouvrages composant le cycle des Histoires de Bas-de-Cuir (Leatherstocking), il se situe entre Le Tueur de daims (The Deerslayer) et Le Lac Ontario (The Pathfinder).

Le récit a pour théâtre l'Amérique du Nord, pendant la Guerre de Sept Ans. Les affrontements entre Français et Anglais en forment la toile de fond. Cooper décrit notamment la bataille de Fort William Henry qui oppose, en juillet et août 1757, les troupes du général français Montcalm (et de ses alliés indiens) à celles du colonel britannique Munro.

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Le dernier des Mohicans

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.

Near the centre of the State of New York lies an extensive district of country whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys. It is among these hills that the Delaware takes its rise; and flowing from the limpid lakes and thousand springs of this region the numerous sources of the Susquehanna meander through the valleys until, uniting their streams, they form one of the proudest rivers of the United States. The mountains are generally arable to the tops, although instances are not wanting where the sides are jutted with rocks that aid greatly in giving to the country that romantic and picturesque character which it so eminently possesses. The vales are narrow, rich, and cultivated, with a stream uniformly winding through each. Beautiful and thriving villages are found interspersed along the margins of the small lakes, or situated at those points of the streams which are favorable for manufacturing; and neat and comfortable farms, with every indication of wealth about them, are scattered profusely through the vales, and even to the mountain tops. Roads diverge in every direction from the even and graceful bottoms of the valleys to the most rugged and intricate passes of the hills. Academies and minor edifices of learning meet the eye of the stranger at every few miles as be winds his way through this uneven territory, and places for the worship of God abound with that frequency which characterize a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical government which flows from unfettered liberty of conscience.

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