About this title: 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, and personal experience, but that is filtered through the consciousness of an extremely gifted and observant fiction writer. DEEPHAVEN, a coming-of-age novel-in-stories about a young woman who views her small-town community with an amused but never ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: leather
Publisher: The Library of America, (New York)
Date Published: 1994
Description: Fine. Attractively rebound by Asprey in full brown morocco with gilt rules and lettering, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt; 937 pages. Includes DEEPHAVEN; A COUNTRY DOCTOR; THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS; DUNNET LANDING STORIES; and SELECTED STORIES & SKETCHES. read more
Description: Acceptable. Mild warping; spine okay. Book is ACCEPTABLE with noted wear to cover and pages. Binding intact. May contain highlighting, inscriptions or notations. We offer a no-hassle guarantee on all our items. Orders generally ship by the next business day. Default Text. read more
Description: Good. 1883011345 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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