The Last of the Mohicans Lea, of Philadelphia. According to Susan Cooper, its success was "greater than that of any previous book from the same pen" and "in Europe the book produced quite a startling effect." Cooper's novels were popular, but reviewers were often critical, or dismissive. For example, the reviewer of the "London Magazine" (May 1826) described the novel as "clearly by much the worst of Mr Cooper's performances." Mark Twain notably derided the author in his essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses", published in "North American Review" (July 1895). Twain complained that Cooper lacked a variety of style and was overly wordy. In the
The Last Days of Dinosaurs (book) The Last Days of Dinosaurs (book) The Last Days of Dinosaurs (in Czech original "Poslední dny dinosaurů") is a science-fiction thriller from Czech writer and science promoter Vladimír Socha. Its story is about four audacious people who undergo a time travel to the very end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago. Not only must they find a way how to evade the Armageddon caused by the giant asteroid (Chicxulub) impact, they also have to save themselves from the dangerous theropod dinosaurs (like "Tyrannosaurus" or "Dakotaraptor") and even a mad scientist who wants to change the course of evolution