The Country of the Pointed Firs and Othe - by Sarah Orne Jewett (Paperback)
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Highlights
- The Country of Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece established her among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction.
- About the Author: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine.
- 304 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
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About the Book
Modeled in part on Flaubert's sketches of life in provincial France, this collection of stories offers a richly detailed portrait of a seaport on the Maine coast as seen through the eyes of a summer visitor. Against evocative imagery of the sky, the sea, and the earth itself, Jewett celebrates the friendships shared by the town's women, capturing the spirit of community that sustains the declining town.Book Synopsis
The Country of Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece established her among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction. Composed in a series of beautiful web-like sketches the novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city to work one summer in the Maine seaport of Dunnet Landing and stays with the herbalist Mrs Almira Todd. She writes a New England idyll rooted in friendship particularly female friendship weaving stories and conversations imagery of sea sky and earth the tang of salt air and aromatic herbs into an organic 'fiction of community' in which themes and form are exquisitely matched. To quote Willa Cather: 'The 'Pointed Fir' sketches are living things caught in the open with light and freedom and air spaces about them. They melt into the land and the life of the land until they are not stories at all but life itself'. This edition introduced by Alison Easton also includes ten of Sarah Orne Jewett's short stories among them 'The Queen's Twin' 'The Foreigner' and 'William's Wedding' set in Dunnet Landing.From the Back Cover
The Country of the Pointer Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece, established her among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction. Composed in a series of beautiful web-like sketches, the novel is narrated by a young woman writer who unfolds a New England idyll rooted in friendship, particularly female friendship, weaving stories and conversations, imagery of sea, sky and earth, the tang of salt air and aromatic herbs into an historically significant 'fiction of community' in which themes and form are exquisitely matched. This edition, introduced by Alison Easton, also includes ten of Sarah Orne Jewett's short stories, among them 'The Queen's Twin', 'The Foreigner' and 'William's Wedding'.Review Quotes
"Immense--it is the very life."
--Rudyard Kipling
About the Author
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine.Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 5.1 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .5 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Classics
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 304
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
Language: English
Street Date: October 26, 1995
TCIN: 54271215
UPC: 9780140434767
Item Number (DPCI): 248-44-0224
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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