... half-brother.(Ringe,47) What cooper intended to show is not clear. The gothic episodes clash with the historical ones. The Last of the Mohicans was one of his most acknowledged masterpieces. Although the issues of race and power raised by the Last of the Mohicans remains contemporary, Cooper's prose style and the genre to which his novel belongs became forever separate during the ages ... fiction in America." Cooper died on September 14, 1841 at his home, Otsego Hall, one day shy of his 62nd birthday. Cooper was the first great American novelist, a man who incited and provoked his contem...

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