num_pages: 88
description: Alternate Cover Edition of ISBN 9780486281964In scene after memorable scene of Sarah Orne Jewett's fictional masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs, the Maine-born author recorded what she felt were the rapidly disappearing traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives--a happy family reunion, an old seaman's ghostly vision, a disappointed lover's self-imposed exile and more--Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders and a warm, humorous and compassionate vision of the New England character.
language: English
title: The Country of the Pointed Firs
titlecomplete: The Country of the Pointed Firs
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Novella
ratings_count: 3826
places: Maine
publisher: Dover Publications