The Country of the Pointed Firs: A Quick Read edition

The Country of the Pointed Firs: A Quick Read edition

by Quick Read and Sarah Orne Jewett
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 16/02/2024

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"The Country of the Pointed Firs" is a novel by Sarah Orne Jewett, published in 1896. The story is set in a small coastal town in Maine, where the narrator, a Bostonian, returns to finish writing her book. She stays with Almira Todd, a widow and the local apothecary and herbalist. The narrator rents an empty schoolhouse to concentrate on her writing, but she spends most of her time in meditation and receiving company. She befriends Mrs. Todd and her family, including William, Mrs. Todd's brother, and Mrs. Brackett, her elderly mother. The narrator attends the Bowden family reunion, a grand event in the lives of people in Dunnet and the surrounding countryside. She also befriends Elijah Tilley, an old fisherman lonely and widowed. The novel can be read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship experienced by the inhabitants of the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast. The book was serialized in The Atlantic Monthly and published in book form in Boston and New York by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in November 1896. It is considered by some literary critics to be Jewett's finest work.

ISBN:
9782385820718
9782385820718
Category:
Anthologies (non-poetry)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
16-02-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
​QuickRead
Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. As a young child she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and encouraged to take frequent nature walks. Today she is best known for her nature writing and regional works set along the coast of Maine. At nineteen, Jewett had a short story published in The Atlantic.

She is the author of Deephaven (1877), Old Friends and New (1879), Country By-Ways (1881), A White Heron and Other Stories (1886), and A Native of Winby and Other Tales (1893). Her novels include A Country Doctor (1884) and The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896). For most of her adult life, Jewett lived with Annie Adams Field in what was then termed a 'Boston marriage'.

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