The Last of the Mohicans (1870) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0217594824 ISBN 13: 9780217594820

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. The reader, who takes up these volumes, .11 fx- r .tat ion of finding an imaginary and romantic picture of things which-never had an existence, will probably lay them aside, disappointed. The work w xactly what it professes to be in its title-page—a narrative. As it relates, however, to matters which may not be universally understood, especially by the more imaginative sex, some of whom, under the impression that it is a fiction, may be induced to read the book, it becomes the interest of the author to explain a few of the obscurities of the historical allusions. Me is admonished to discharge this duty, by the bitter cup of experience, which has often proved to him, that however ignorant the public may be cf any thing before it is presented to their eyes, the instant it has o?en subjected to that terrible ordeal, they, individually and collectively, and he may add, intuitively, know more of it than the agent of the discovery; and yet, that, in direct opposition to this incontro vertible fact, it is a very unsafe experiment eithei for a writer or a-projector to trust to the inventive powers.of any one but himself. Therefore, nothing which can well be explained, should be left a myste ry. Such an expedient would only impart a peculiar pleasure to readers of that description, who find a strange gratification in spending more of their time inmaking books, than of their money in buying them. With this preliminary explanation of his reasons foi introducing so many unintelligible words, in the very threshold of his undertaking, the author will com- mence his task. Of course, nothing will, or need lie told, with which any one, in the smallest degree acquainted with Indian antiquities, is not already familiar. The greatest difficulty with which the student, of Indian history...

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• ISBN 10: 0217594824
• ISBN 13: 9780217594820
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