Originally published in 1896, THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS concerns a young woman writer, summering in the Maine fishing village of Dunnet Landing. As she stays there, she becomes closer to the people of the village, and to the power of the land and sea that surround her. The characters include an ancient sea captain who claims to have once ...
Originally published in 1896, THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS concerns a young woman writer, summering in the Maine fishing village of Dunnet Landing. As she stays there, she becomes closer to the people of the village, and to the power of the land and sea that surround her. The characters include an ancient sea captain who claims to have once ...
According to the authors, the crusade to rid the world of evil and "evildoers" derives from the same biblical tradition of zealous warfare and nationalism that spawns Islamic and Israeli radicalism. In exploring the tradition of zealous nationalism, Jewett and Lawrence provide a fascinating access to the inner workings of the American psyche.
This classic 19th-century story tells of Sylvia, a shy, lonely girl of the woods, who keeps the secret of a rare and beautiful bird, a white heron, from a hunter - despite her love for him. This is one of the "Walker Treasures" series - a collection of classic works of literature for children.
Semi-autobiographical and regarded as Jewett's most feminist book, the novel concerns the orphan Nan Price as she travels with her guardian, Dr. Leslie, on his rounds. Nan decides to become a doctor herself despite being in love with a man who expects more traditional things of her, and she must come to terms with her own expectations of her life.
DEEPHAVEN, a coming-of-age novel-in-stories about a young woman who views her small-town community with an amused but never cynical eye, has much in common with Jewett's shorter fiction. It is one of her most loved and admired works.
As the nation seems to yearn for redemption from the evils that threaten its tranquility, the authors maintain that Joseph Campbell's monomythic hero is alive and well, but significantly displaced, in American popular culture.
"The Country of the Pointed Firs and Selected Short Fiction," by Sarah Orne Jewett, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable ...
In this cross-cultural history of the mirror, the author draws on numerous sources from literature, philosophy, and art to illustrate the fascination that most humans have with their own refections.
Shirley Jewett is a lung transplant survivor who has taken the wealth of information she learned in her process of moving from a death sentence to a rich full life and chonicled it to encourage others who are in a similar situation.
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), one of the foremost "local color" writers in America, wrote exclusively about her native Maine--its landscape, its people, and its fading rural traditions. Her unsentimental, humorous, and deeply affectionate stories and sketches provide a realistic picture of a bygone time that is based on Jewett's family, neighbors ...
My dear little girl! she said for the second time; and then they walked on, and still Betty could not say anything for sheer joy. "Now I'm going to tell you something quite in confidence," said the hostess of the great house, which showed its dim towers and scattered lights beyond the leafless trees. "I had been wishing to have you come to me, but ...
This succinct book explains how to you can apply the practices of Lean software development to dramatically increase productivity and quality. Based on techniques that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing, Lean principles are being applied successfully to product design, engineering, the supply chain, and now software development. With "The Art ...
This text provides, in a single volume, an up-to-date review of the complications in urological surgery. All therapeutic invasive procedures carry an element of risk, and this is particularly true as far as pelvic surgery is concerned where the main methods of treatement are open surgery, endoscopic surgery and radiotherapy. The initial chapters ...
This collection brings together Sarah Orne Jewett's fiction in the context of American literary multiculturalism and introduces her work into the corpus of the American short story.
`I like to think with pleasure with what a sense of rich discovery the young student of American literature in far distant years to come will take up this book and say " A Masterpiece".' Willa Cather Willa Cather's assessment of The Country of the Pointed Firs has done much to ensure a growing recognition of its qualities. In this novella, a ...
An Arrow in a Sunbeam and Other Tales (c. 1880) is a collection of children's stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, Frances Lee and Reverend C. S. Sleight. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) who also wrote under the pen name Alice Eliot was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her local colour works. She published her first important ...
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), one of the foremost "local color" writers in America, wrote exclusively about her native Maine--its landscape, its people, and its fading rural traditions. Her unsentimental, humorous, and deeply affectionate stories and sketches provide a realistic picture of a bygone time that is based on Jewett's family, neighbors ...
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