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 Boy Who Found Fear At Last The Boy Who Found Fear At Last The Boy Who Found Fear At Last is a Turkish fairy tale collected by Ignaz Kunos in "Türkische Volksmärchen". Andrew Lang included it in "The Olive Fairy Book" A woman had an only son. During a storm, she told him to shut the door because she felt frightened. He asked her what she meant. When she could not make him understand, he set out to find the fear she told him of. He found robbers and sat with them by their fire. When they realized he did not fear them, they gave him