The Last of the Mohicans

De: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrado por: Jonathan Oliver

The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826.

James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century.

Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards.

Public Domain (P)2009 RNIB

This is the definitive recording

There are a lot of weird and badly done recordings for this novel. Use this one; the reader is excellent at narration and character work and actually pronounces terms correctly. Highly recommended.

Sweet

Reasonably well read, and of course this is a beautiful and timeless story. I wish we had more authors like this fellow. One for the ages.

A difficult book to follow.

I love old English novels, so I am used to the language, but this was very difficult to follow especially given all the native American names and terms. Not my favorite performance .

Wonderful narrator!

Loved the energy that the narrator had for the entire novel. I wish he would narrate the other Leatherstocking tales. Would recommend for a family to listen to this classic together.

Very well delivered

Very well delivered and engaging audible. I'll most likely seek out the reader again in other books.

Way more in depth than the movie!

Oh my goodness what a listen this has been! whew!! I enjoyed the presentation of this book. Jonathan Oliver reads this book as if we're fireside in the woods in colonial times! What an intense story and a heart wrenching story. A true master piece! Especially that I live in New York State and have traveled to Fort William Henry on Lake George. Its literature and historical gold and its an amazing adventure!! You won't be disappointed!

Not the best

The voice of the guy reading was hard to listen to. The story was not bad over all.

Absolutely love this book

This adventure gives us what may be the definitive American hero in Hawkeye, the self-sacrificing, humble, stoic scout and marksman. Cooper is refreshingly ahead of his time in fairness and respect to Native american peoples.
From Cooper's book, written in 1826:
"Tell them, that the Being we all worship, under different names, will be mindful of their charity; and that the time shall not be distant when we may assemble around His throne without distinction of sex, or rank, or color."

Frustrating

The narration was so bad that I couldn't understand what was being read. Might just be me, but I had to turn it off after 20 minutes of strained hard listening. Extremely frustrating, very let down.

Great voice. Struggles with dialect.

Although I think I could listen to the soft purr and swift precision of the narrator's speech for years on end, to my ears, he fails to render the dialog in this book authentically. Most of it is overwrought, sounding more like caricatures than characters. There's no evidence of an authentic accent in the Native American characters and, worst of all, Hawkeye, the central character, is performed as if he were some transplanted Cajun rather than a colonial American frontiersman. For an example of what I mean, listen to Raymond Todd's reading of The Deerslayer. To me he gets it right. Todd's dialog sounds more authentic and carries the story better. Mr. Oliver doesn't even approximate the characters' speech as the author renders it on the page. It ruined the experience for me. I downloaded a different version.