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 of the Mohicans (TV series) is killed, the very last line in the serial is where Chingachook says in a sad voice "I am the last of the Mohicans". The serial was responsible for popularising the term "Mohican hairstyle" for what is known as a Mohawk hairstyle in the US, although it was actually worn by the Hurons not the Mohicans in the serial. This production was released on DVD, distributed by Acorn Media UK. In 1973 the BBC made a sequel "Hawkeye, the Pathfinder", also with Abineri as Chingachook but with Paul Massie as Hawkeye. It is considered by some people to be the