Country of the Pointed Firs

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - General Fiction

Authors: Sarah Orne Jewett In Year : 1896

Book Language: English

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The Return / Mrs. Todd
The Schoolhouse
At the Schoolhouse Window
Captain Littlepage
The Waiting Place
The Outer Island
Green Island
William
Where Pennyroyal Grew
The Old Singers
A Strange Sail
Poor Joanna
The Hermitage
On Shell-heap Island
The Great Expedition
A Country Road
The Bowden Reunion
The Feast’s End
Along Shore
The Backward View

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.
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