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 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 Dunsany. First prepared for publication in early 1957, it was left unpublished on Dunsany's death later that year, and was finally issued in a limited first special edition only in 2002, and become widely available on its inclusion (together with the preceding book, "Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey") in the later omnibus edition "The Collected Jorkens, Volume Three", issued by Night Shade Books in April, 2005. The collection has an introduction by a curator at Dunsany,