The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
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The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
The masterpiece that established Sarah Orne Jewett among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fictionComposed 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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375756719 |
| ISBN 10 | 037575671X |
| Title | The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories |
| Author | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| Series | Modern Library Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2001-01-09 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |