The Country of the Pointed Firs

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Country of the Pointed Firs

Sarah Ornejewett

Country of the Pointed Firs
By Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett's
finest work, described by Henry James as her "beautiful little
quantum of achievement." Despite James's diminutives, the
novel remains a classic. Because it is loosely structured, many
critics view the book not as a novel, but a series of sketches;
however, its structure is unified through both setting and
theme. Jewett herself felt that her strengths as a writer lay not
in plot development or dramatic tension, but in character development. Indeed, she
determined early in her career to preserve a disappearing way of life, and her novel
can be read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship on the inhabitants who
lived in the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast, (summary from
Gutenberg e-text)

Read by Betsie Bush, Kara Shallenberg, James Smith, Frank Woodward, Stephan
Gambke, Chip, Michael Shook, Patricia Oakley, & Marian Brown. Total Running
Time: 04:25:23

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Cover pictures by Willard Leroy Metcalf, "Close of Day on the Maine Shore" (1881).
Author picture taken ca. 1890-1900. Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU and all
countries with author's life +70 yrs laws. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design
is in the public domain.

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