1. The Last Of The Mohicans
Though his first novel was published on a dare, Cooper published four more by 1826, becoming America's first significant novelist and setting the tone and the scene for many other American novels, including some of his own that were yet to come: the temporal and geographical locales of colonial and revolutionary America, the frontier and the sea. ... The very hot nature of a frontier is that it is the demarcating area where things come together with all their differences. ... Led astray by Magua, they encounter the white woodsman Hawkeye and his two Mohican companions Chingachg...
- Word Count: 1773
- Approx Pages: 7
- Grade Level: High School