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 Book of Jorkens of his previously uncollected Jorkens stories, four having been omitted, mostly from the earlier collections, and one more written after the collection was prepared for publication. These stories were finally brought together with the rest of the Jorkens tales in "The Collected Jorkens"; two of them in "Volume Two", and the remaining three, including Dunsany's last Jorkens story, written within months of his death, in "Volume Three". The book collects twenty-two short pieces by Dunsany. The Last Book of Jorkens The Last Book of Jorkens is a collection of fantasy short stories around the character Joseph Jorkens by writer Lord