书名：Last of the Mohicans最后一个莫希干人
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数930
作者：James Cooper
出版社名称：Collins Classics
出版时间：2010
语种：英文
ISBN：9780007368662
商品尺寸：11.2 x 2.6 x 17.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：416 （以实物为准）

Last of the Mohicans《最后一个莫希干人》是《皮袜子故事集》中相当出色的一部，也是詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏编写小说中的精品。小说以威廉·亨利堡司令孟罗上校的两个女儿科拉和艾丽斯，前往堡垒探望父亲途中被劫持的经历为主线，展开了在原始森林中追踪、伏击、战斗等一系列惊险情节的描写。本书适合英语专业学生及对经典英语文学作品、英美文化感兴趣的读者。
推荐理由：
1.故事发生在18世纪50年代末期，英法两国为争夺北美殖民地而进行的“七年战争”的第三年，英法七年战争的典型文学素材；
2.小说充分体现了北美殖民地的发展史，实质上也是一部印第安人的血泪史；
3.本书结构复杂精巧，内容紧张生动，故事情节悬念重重，人物命运瞬间万变，步步深入，引人入胜；
4.美国华纳兄弟公司在1993年拍摄的同名电影巨片，在世界影坛引起轰动，并获得同年奥斯卡奖提名；
5.柯林斯经典系列，含历史背景及作者介绍（Life & Times），后附英语词汇注释（Glossary of Classic Literature），生词表采用《柯林斯英语词典》的解释，有助于读者学习理解；
6.轻型环保纸印刷，小巧轻便，方便随身携带阅读。
The Last of the Mohicansis a historical novel by James Cooper. It is the second book of theLeatherstocking Talespentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. According to theEncyclopedia of Media and Propagandain Wartime America, the novel has been one of the “most popular novels in English” since its publication and it remains “widely read in American literature courses”. It has been adapted numerous times and in different languages for films, TV movies and cartoons.
Features:
·Life & Times—a fascinating insight into the author, their work and the time of publication
·Glossary of Classic Literature—useful words and phrases at your fingertips, taken fromCollins English Dictionary

“Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.”
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. InThe Last of the Mohicans, Cooper sets Indian tribe against Indian tribe and lays bare the brutality of the white man against the Mohicans.

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 15, 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. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.

“Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared: The worst is wordly loss thou canst unfold: — Say, is my kingdom lost?”
—Shakespeare
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict. But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced native warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
Perhaps no district throughout the wide extent of the intermediate frontiers can furnish a livelier picture of the cruelty and fierceness of the savage warfare of those periods than the country which lies between the head waters of the Hudson and the adjacent lakes.
The facilities which nature had there offered to the march of the combatants were too obvious to be neglected. The lengthened sheet of the Champlain stretched from the frontiers of Canada, deep within the borders of the neighboring province of New York, forming a natural passage across half the distance that the French were compelled to master in order to strike their enemies. Near its southern termination, it received the contributions of another lake, whose waters were so limpid as to have been exclusively selected by the Jesuit missionaries to perform the typical purification of baptism, and to obtain for it the title of lake “du Saint Sacrement.” The less zealous English thought they conferred a sufficient honor on its unsullied fountains, when they bestowed the name of their reigning prince, the second of the house of Hanover. The two united to rob the untutored possessors of its wooded scenery of their native right to perpetuate its original appellation of “Horican.”