The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Signet Classics) (平装) 0451527577

在线阅读本书 In 1896, at the age of forty-seven, Sarah Orne Jewett published this classic novel of a female writer looking for seclusion and inspiration in the coastal town of Dunnet Landing, Maine. Returning to the women and men of small New England towns for the accompanying collection of short fiction, this remarkable volume weaves a colorful and moving tapestry of the grand complexities, joys, and beauties of life. "The young student of American Literature in far distant years to come will take up this book and say 'a masterpiece.'"-- Willa Cather From Publishers Weekly Jewett's 1896 novel and selected stories about the fictional town of Dunnett Landing in rural Maine. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Review "When one really knows a village like this and its surroundings, it is like becoming acquainted with a single person. The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair".

-- From the novel Review Immense—it is the very life. —Rudyard Kipling--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909) was born and raised in South Berwick, Maine. Before publication of The Country of the Pointed Firs, she published the novels A Country Doctor (1884) and A Marsh Island (1885), and nine collections of short stories.

Sarah Way Sherman is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and author of Sarah Orne Jewett, An American Persephone (UPNE, 1989) and numerous articles on 19th-century women writers.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

出版社	Signet Classics
作者	Sarah Orne Jewett