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 Wish (book) for the TV series and video games. The book known in Poland as "Ostatnie życzenie" (SuperNOWA, 1993, ) has been translated into Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Swedish, Spanish, French, Finnish, Slovak, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Traditional Chinese. An English translation of "The Last Wish" was published in the United Kingdom by Gollancz in 2007 and in the United States by Orion in May 2008. A Polish language audio book based on "The Last Wish" and "The Sword of Destiny" was released in 2011 by Fonopolis and audioteka.pl. "The Last Wish", lasting about 12 hours, was voiced by 52 actors, including