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Deephaven

First published: 1877
Pages: 212

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Preface & Kate Lancaster's Plan
17:05
The Brandon House and the Lighthouse
25:09
My Lady Brandon and the Widow Jim
34:43
Deephaven Society
23:04
The Captains
14:14
Danny
20:54
Captain Sands
13:59
The Circus at Denby
32:11
Cunner-Fishing
51:14
Mrs. Bonny
20:45
In Shadow
24:00
Miss Chauncey
22:28
Last Days in Deephaven
18:59

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About this book

Two young women from Boston, Kate Lancaster and her friend Helen, spend a long summer in a quiet Maine seaport that has seen livelier days. Through their eyes Sarah Orne Jewett gathers a series of gentle sketches: retired sea captains with stories of distant voyages, aging widows, fishermen, and the slow rhythms of a coastal town slipping out of the wider world's attention. Her first book, published in 1877, it shows the close observation and tenderness for ordinary lives that would make her one of the finest regional writers in American letters. There is little plot here, only a place and its people, drawn with real affection. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available to download.

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Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was an American writer from South Berwick, Maine, and a leading figure in the local color movement. Her fiction preserved the speech, landscapes, and vanishing ways of coastal New England, and she influenced later writers including Willa Cather.