Fiction · 1896
The Country of the Pointed Firs
An unnamed woman writer spends a summer boarding with Mrs. Almira Todd, an herbalist in the fictional Maine fishing village of Dunnet Landing, and records its residents and their stories in a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a single plot.
Sarah Orne Jewett published the book in 1896, building it from sketches she had written for The Atlantic Monthly; it is often cited as one of the finest achievements of American literary regionalism.
Bibliomancer restores the 1896 text exactly as Jewett wrote it.
Contents
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- I — The Return
- II. Mrs. Todd
- III — The Schoolhouse
- IV — At the Schoolhouse Window
- V — Captain Littlepage
- VI — The Waiting Place
- VII — The Outer Island
- VIII — Green Island
- IX — William
- X — Where Pennyroyal Grew
- XI — The Old Singers
- XII — A Strange Sail
- XIII — Poor Joanna
- XIV — The Hermitage
- XV — On Shell-heap Island
- XVI — The Great Expedition
- XVII — A Country Road
- XVIII — The Bowden Reunion
- XIX — The Feast’s End
- XX — Along Shore
- XXI — The Backward View
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