The Country Of The Pointed Firs: And Other Stories

In 1896, at the age of forty-seven, Sarah Orne Jewett published her finest work, The Country of the Pointed Firs, about a woman writer who comes one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, to find seclusion for her work. Returning again and again to New England, Jewett traces the patterns of life of the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal towns. Fittingly, her best novel gives us a detailed view of the residents of fictional Dunnet Landing, where lives are molded by the long Maine winters, by the surrounding rock-filled fields, and by strong, resourceful women.

In 1896, at the age of forty-seven, Sarah Orne Jewett published this classic novel of a female writer looking for seclusion and inspiration in the coastal town of Dunnet Landing, Maine. Returning to the women and men of small New England towns for the accompanying collection of short fiction, this remarkable volume weaves a colorful and moving tapestry of the grand complexities, joys, and beauties of life.