One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

The Last of the Mohicans

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Last of the Mohicans

By JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Condensation by THOMAS D. CONNOLLY IN the third year of the war between France and England in North America news…

The Last of the Mohicans: Indian

As the unsuspecting travelers pressed through the thick forests, a savage face glared at them from a thicket. Magua was leading the party…

The Last of the Mohicans: Indians

They had barely reached their island fortress when Magua's band appeared on their trail. The scout and his companions valiantly defended…

The Last of the Mohicans: Delawares

Magua, although keeping Alice with his own tribe, had intrusted the care of Cora to a friendly tribe of Delawares. Immediately after the…

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