The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans: Style 1 key example

Chapter 2
Explanation and Analysis:

The novel's style is self-referential, and it is characterized by long, descriptive sentences. For example, in Chapter 2, the narrator describes Cora, Alice, and Duncan's first meeting with David Gamut:

In a few moments a colt was seen gliding, like a fallow-deer, among the straight trunks of the pines; and, in another instant, the person of the ungainly man described in the preceding chapter, came into view, with as much rapidity as he could excite his meager beast to endure without coming to an open rupture.