The country of the pointed firs and other stories
By: Sarah Orne Jewett ; introduction by Anita Shreve ; new afterword by Peter Balaam
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780451531445
Subjects: Fiction; Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Women authors; Female friendship
Description: "In 1896 ... Sarah Orne Jewett published her finest work, The Country of the Pointed Firs, about a woman writer who retreats one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, to find seclusion to do her work. In the novel and stories collected here, Jewett explores the world of the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal towns, offering a detailed view of lives molded by the long Maine winters, by the surrounding rock-filled fields, and by strong, resourceful women."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-250).
Table of contents: title: The country of the pointed firs; title: Four related stories. A Dunnet shepherdess; title: The foreigner; title: The queen's twin; title: William's wedding.