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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：2014
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451417862
商品尺寸：10.4 x 3.1 x 17.1 cm
包装：平装
页数：450 （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。适合英语专业学生及对经典英语文学作品，美国文化感兴趣的读者。
推荐理由：
1.故事发生在十八世纪五十年代末期，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.本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.美国华纳兄弟公司于1993年拍摄同名电影巨片，在世界影坛引起轰动，并获得同年奥斯卡奖提名；
5.英文原版无删减，小巧轻便，阅读方便。
James Fenimore Cooper’s classic American story of life on the frontier during the French and Indian War.
The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Cooper. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. According to the Encyclopedia of Media and Propaganda in 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.
With an Introduction by Richard Hutson and a New Afterword by Hugh C. MacDougall
Reviews:
“In his immortal friendship of Chingachgook and Natty Bumppo [Cooper] dreamed the nucleus of a new society… A stark human relationship of two men, deeper than the deeps of sex. Deeper than property, deeper than fatherhood, deeper than marriage, deeper than Love.” — D. H. Lawrence
“The Last of the Mohicans raises again the question of the efficacy of human effort to control irrational forces at work in individual men, races, and nations. The question has never been more pertinent than now.” — James Franklin Beard
The Last of the Mohicans, one of the world’s great adventure stories, dramatizes how the birth of American culture was intertwined with that of Native Americans. In 1757, as the English and the French war over American territory, the frontier scout Hawkeye—Natty Bumppo—risks his life to escort two sisters through hostile Huron country. Hawkeye enlists the aid of his Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas, and together they battle deception, brutality, and death in a thrilling story of loyalty, moral courage, and love.
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) was born in Burlington, New Jersey, and his family moved to Cooperstown, New York, while he was still an infant. He attended Yale College until he was expelled for bad behavior. He served in the U.S. Navy, resigning in 1811 to get married. With his story The Pilot (1823), Cooper set the style for a new genre of sea fiction. His most famous novels are the Leather-Stocking Tales including The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826),The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841), featuring the quintessential American hero Natty Bumppo. Cooper, a keen social critic, wrote several well-regarded naval histories.
Richard Hutson is an associate professor of English and director of the American Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. His teaching and writing have been primarily on American popular culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially on the American West.
Hugh C. MacDougall, a graduate of Harvard, Columbia Law School and Columbia School of International Affairs, served in the State Department for twenty-eight years, including postings in tropical Africa, Brazil, and Burma. He is a founder of the James Fenimore Cooper Society, and has presented many papers on Cooper and his writings.
“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.”
