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The Country of the Pointed Firs

First published: 1896
Pages: 118

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The Return / Mrs. Todd
11:20
The Schoolhouse
5:35
At the Schoolhouse Window
6:43
Captain Littlepage
14:19
The Waiting Place
13:56
The Outer Island
6:57
Green Island
21:58
William
6:58
Where Pennyroyal Grew
10:50
The Old Singers
8:04
A Strange Sail
13:44
Poor Joanna
20:15
The Hermitage
14:14
On Shell-heap Island
7:58
The Great Expedition
12:40
A Country Road
13:42
The Bowden Reunion
26:28
The Feast’s End
11:51
Along Shore
28:31
The Backward View
9:20

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Sarah Orne Jewett's finest work is less a novel than a series of linked sketches, drawn from a summer on the coast of Maine. The unnamed narrator, a writer from the city, takes lodgings with Almira Todd, a widowed herb-gatherer whose kitchen becomes a doorway into the life of the fishing village of Dunnet Landing. Little happens in the way of plot. Instead there are visits, remembered stories, a family reunion, and long afternoons with sea captains and solitary islanders growing old at the edge of the water. Quiet and closely observed, it stands as a lasting portrait of a fading New England world. Free to read as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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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.