About this title: 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 explored the Arctic, a shepherdess who has resisted marriage to the man she loves for 40 years, Mrs. Todd the herb expert, and a legendary hermit.
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Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780393000481ISBN:0393000486
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Owner-name in fly, and some under-lining, student-notes. Soft-cover. Edge-wear. Spine NOT creased. NO stains, tears. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 296 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: PB.
Publisher: Doubleday Anchor A-26., New York.
Date Published: c1956.
Description: Very good+ paperback. Selected, arranged and with a preface by Willa Cather. Reprint (95 cents cover price). A well-bound clean copy. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780375756719ISBN:037575671X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Modern Library Classics (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. Light shelf wear. read more
"Not sure how I got to be 49 and never read any Sarah Orne Jewett. I liked this very much - for its rich descriptions of coastal Maine and the beautiful relationships between the women in the community. And I liked the way it wasn;'t quite a novel but not short stories either. Willa Cather said about it "The design is the story and the story the design". I'm pondering that."
One of the antique books from the 1800's sitting on my bookshelf is a collection of Sarah's short stories, and I love every one of them.
The setting for many of these stories is coastal Maine, and so the pull of the sea and the old village way of life is very strong in them.
I'm charmed with her language from the past and the postcard view of a simpler time long gone, when Nature spoke and pies were the solution to the world's problems, when Watchers stayed with the dead all night long, and everyday life could provide more than enough material to create a book full of stories.
Heading to my old wooden rocker on the front porch now ...to read "A Dunnet Shepherdess.""
"Loved Jewett's writing. The story was interesting, but one that seemed stuck in its time. It was not a book that I would want to go back to time and time again like some classics."
"A pleasure to read. If you do visual imagery to relax and go to your happy place, add reading this book with your feet up, by a sweet little pond, sipping a tall drink, add some of your favorite things here_______________."
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