The Country of the Pointed Firs
The Country of the Pointed Firs
By: Sarah Orne Jewett
Softcover ISBN: 9781596880986
Hardcover ISBN: 9781596882409
Subject: Fiction
A series of sketches of the people of a fictional Maine seaport. Tales of hardship, adventure, unrequited love, isolation, marriage and death are woven into a rich tapestry of rural life.
Title information
A series of sketches of the people of a fictional Maine seaport. Tales of hardship, adventure, unrequited love, isolation, mairriage and death are woven into a rich tapestry of rural life.
Pages: 144
Publisher: The Large Print Book Company, LLC
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was born and lived most of her life in South Berwick, Maine, the daughter of a country doctor. She is best known for her keenly-observed stories about the people around her, their patterns of speech, their manners and inner lives in Deephaven and other story collections and in her masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs.
Home Town: South Berwick, Maine
Birthplace: South Berwick, Maine