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Old Friends and New

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First published: 1879
Pages: 104

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A summer visitor brings new life to the quiet Longfield home of Miss Horatia Dane, an older woman whose neighbours believe she once lost a lover at sea. Her young cousin Nelly grows fond of her reserved hostess and begins asking the household servant about the story that Miss Dane herself never tells. Sarah Orne Jewett opens this collection of seven short stories with the gap between a village's shared account and a person's private feelings.

Elsewhere, a letter recounts an awkward dinner at which Mr. Bruce admits that he has mistaken a young guest for a former servant. His embarrassment gives the scene its comedy while exposing his assumptions about social standing. Old Friends and New offers nineteenth-century New England fiction attentive to household routines, family ties and the judgments people make about one another. The scenes reward close attention to what characters say, what they withhold and how others interpret them.

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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.

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Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
First published: 1879
Reading time: About 4 hours
Pages: 104
Language: English
Genre: American Classics
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Read online