The Country of the Pointed Firs (Revised) (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

Brief Description:
A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century, and presenting a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England character.

Table of Contents:
ContentsI. The ReturnII Mrs. ToddIII The SchoolhouseIV At the Schoolhouse WindowV Captain LittlepageVI The Waiting PlaceVII The Outer IslandVIII Green IslandIX WilliamX Where Pennyroyal GrewXI The Old SingersXII A Strange SailXIII Poor JoannaXIV The HermitageXV On Shell-heap IslandXVI The Great ExpeditionXVII A Country RoadXVIII The Bowden ReunionXIX The Feast's EndXX Along ShoreXXI The Backward View

Publisher Marketing:

In scene after memorable scene of Sarah Orne Jewett's fictional masterpiece, The Country of Pointed Firs, the Maine-born author recorded what she felt were the rapidly disappearing traditions, manners, and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the twentieth century. In luminous evocations of their lives -- a happy family reunion, an old seaman's ghostly vision, a disappointed lover's self-imposed exile, and more -- Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of the New England character.
No less a writer than Willa Cather ranked The Country of the Pointed Firs -- with Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- as one of the three American works most likely to achieve permanent recognition. Long overlooked, Sarah Orne Jewett is today widely acknowledged as an American master and The Country of the Pointed Firs as a landmark in the defining of American character and the American experience.