James Fenimore Cooper: Last of the Mohicans, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Coopers Roman spielt in einer Zeit, als die Vereinigten Staaten noch nicht existierten, sondern sich England und Frankreich auf nordamerikanischem Boden blutige Kolonialkriege lieferten, also um die Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts.
Vor aller Gefahr durch menschliche Gegner stand die rauhe und gefährliche Wildnis des Landes. In diese Wildnis stellt Cooper seine beiden Heldinnen, die Halbschwestern Alice und Kora. Sie sind zusammen mit dem britischen Offizier Heyward und Nutty Bumppoo, dem Falkenauge auch Wildtöter genannt, zwischen den Fronten unterwegs zu ihrem Vater, dem Kommandanten eines Forts. Von ihrem indianischen Fährtensucher in die Irre geführt, bestehen sie zusammen mit Chingachgook und dessen Sohn Uncas - dem Letzten Mohikaner - vielerlei Gefahren. 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 characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, and partly in his evocation of the wild beautiful landscapes of North America which the French and the British fought to control throughout the eighteenth century.
At the centre of the novel is the celebrated `Massacre' of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality, and heroism, in which the destiny of the Mohicans Chingachgook and his son Uncas is inseparable from the lives of Alice and Cora Munro and of Hawkeye the frontier scout. The controlled, elaborate writing gives natural pace to the violence of the novel's
action: like the nature whose plundering Copper laments, the books placid surfaces conceal inexplicable and deathly forces.

Klappentext

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 characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, and partly in his evocation of the wild beautiful landscapes of North America which the French and the British fought to control throughout the eighteenth century.

At the centre of the novel is the celebrated `Massacre' of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality, and heroism, in which the destiny of the Mohicans Chingachgook and his son Uncas is inseparable from the lives of Alice and Cora Munro and of Hawkeye the frontier scout. The controlled, elaborate writing gives natural pace to the violence of the novel's action: like the nature whose plundering Copper laments, the books placid surfaces conceal inexplicable and deathly forces.
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