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The Library of America edition is the first one-volume collection to include all her best fiction and it reveals the full stature of the writer Willa Cather ranked with Mark Twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJewett struck her characteristic note in her first collection, \u003ci\u003eDeephaven\u003c\/i\u003e (1877), stories whose exploration of Maine life moved and delighted readers when they were first published in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and opened a new vein of regional fiction in American literature. Of the distinctly local quality of her writing, Cather later said: The language her people speak to each other is a native tongue. No writer can invent it. It is made in the hard school of experience, in communities where language has been undisturbed long enough to take on color and character from the nature and experiences of the people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe novel \u003ci\u003eA Country Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e (1884), inspired by both her own life and that of her doctor father, is often read as a veiled autobiography. Her focus here is on a woman who must choose between marriage and her commitment to a medical career, a decision she defends passionately against the narrowness of those around her: God would not give us the same talents if what were right for men were wrong for women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJewett's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Country of the Pointed Firs\u003c\/i\u003e (1896), brings to imaginative life the faded trading port of Dunnet Landing, Maine, re-creating in spare, impressionistic prose the rhythms and textures of a communal society of poor fishermen and farmers, with its traditional country of rituals and its stoically endured tragedies. In these linked stories we meet some of Jewett's most unforgettable characters--a woman who withdraws from society to live alone on an island, a retired sea captain haunted by old superstitions, a herb-gatherer keeping alive an old knowledge of homeopathic remedies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the related Dunnet Landing stories, Jewett offers further glimpses of her fictional town, often delineating with unique sensitivity the theme of older people striving to live with dignity and security. Other stories include A White Heron, about a girl's love for both a young ornithologist and the heron for which he is searching, the haunting Miss Tempy's Watchers, and more tales humorous, satiric, and poignant.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49530844938513,"sku":"CIN0940450747G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50299442168081,"sku":"CIN0940450747VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":50809288720657,"sku":"CIN0940450747LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53618810945809,"sku":"GOR014983985","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0940450747.jpg?v=1751077936"},{"product_id":"sarah-orne-jewett-lake-classics-sarah-orne-jewett-book-sarah-orne-jewett-9781561030095","title":"Sarah Orne Jewett (Lake Classics Sarah Orne Jewett)","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49896694841617,"sku":"CIN1561030090VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1561030090.jpg?v=1750718897"},{"product_id":"country-of-the-pointed-firs-book-sarah-orne-jewett-9780451527578","title":"The Country Of The Pointed Firs","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe masterpiece that established Sarah Orne Jewett among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eComposed 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. 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