Best known for her masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs , Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) is a writer with enormous resonance for our time. Our fascination with place, with traditional values, and our yearning for a rural utopia all find fulfillment in Jewett's portrayal of the "grand and simple lives" of coastal Maine. In this delicious ...
The tale of Demeter and Persephone, a central myth of Victorian women's culture, is used to interpret the life and work of a 19th-century Maine writer.
An updated and revised edition of a classic study, this widely cited book presents a lucid review of all of Jewett's work, which includes nearly 200 stories and novels. In a new preface Donovan discusses the "culture war" that has recently erupted over Jewett.
In the late nineteenth century the expression 'master smart woman, ' was reserved for a woman of exceptional achievement-a woman such as the American writer Sarah Orne Jewett. Jane Morrison, a brilliant young filmmaker, created a wonderful portrait of this renowned feminist writer. This book brings the essence of Morrison's award-winning film, ...
This text identifies the works, fictional characters, family members, and personal and professional friends of Sarah Orne Jewett. It includes brief bibliographies on important works and persons, an introductory essay and a chronology highlighting the events in her life and career.
Adopting a psychoanalytical approach, this book argues that Jewett's book allegorizes a troubled daughter's return to familial origins, and dramatizes her reengagement with and effort to transcend unconscious figures (particularly parental) established during early maturation.
In 1840, Heinrich Heine, the major German poet of Jewish origin of the age, published a book on Ludwig Borne, the major German political writer of Jewish origin of the period, who had died three years before. Regarded by Heine and others as his best-written book, it was also his most disastrously conceived. Intended to recover the high ground of ...
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: State Planning and Development Commission / Rumford Press, printer.
Date Published: 1945
Description: Pote, Winston (Photos by), and Orne (Photos by), and Gray, A Thornton (Photos by). Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Cover blue ink stamp: ' Property of Mansfield Public Library, Temple N.H. ' Minor cover wear. 16 p. Includes illustrations. Front color photo, Pinkham Notch, Mt Washington; B&W photos inside and back cover. Stapled binding; paper illustrated covers. 4.75x6in. Monthly small format magazine promoting New Hampshire. No advertising. 'The Month of March' by Kenneth ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: McDougal, Lettell & Co.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780883431863ISBN:0883431866
Description: Very Good- No Jacket. From the Literature Lives series, containing short works by Truman Capote, Will James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Jack London, Saki, Birago Diop, Richard Wilbur, Doris Lessing, Langston Hughes, Peter Jones, Julius Lester, Elizabeth Mary Watson, MIchael Olenick, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and John Henrik Clarke. Illustrated. Light edgewear. read more
Edition: First Edition, Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1909
Description: Very Good. Small 8vo viii, [2], 439, [1] pages. Novel concerning the lives of a small-town country doctor and his family. Slight rubbing to covers, head and foot of spine and corners; previous owner's ink inscription and paper label on front free endpaper; slight internal browning to edges and endpapers. read more
Binding: Hardcover; Later Printing
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin And Company
Date Published: (1933)
Description: Illustrated by Sewell, Helen. VG+/NONE. Orange cloth, with black lettering and some light soiling/rubbing. Out of print.; B&W Illustrations; 154 pages. read more
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