Country of the Pointed Firs (Version 2)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jan 30, 2024

In Category - Published 1800 -1900

Authors: Sarah Orne Jewett In Year : 1896

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Country of the Pointed Firs (Version 2)

Chaper 1 - The Return
Chapter 2 - Mrs. Todd
Chapter 3 - The Schoolhouse
Chapter 4 - At the Schoolhouse Window
Chapter 5 - Captain Littlepage
Chapter 6 - The Waiting Place
Chapter 7 - The Outer Island
Chapter 8 - Green Island
Chapter 9 - William
Chapter 10 - Where Pennyroyal Grew
Chapter 11 - The Old Singers
Chapter 12 - A Strange Sail
Chapter 13 - Poor Joanna
Chapter 14 - The Hermitage
Chapter 15 - On Shell-heap Island
Chapter 16 - The Great Expedition
Chapter 17 - A Country Road
Chapter 18 - The Bowden Reunion
Chaper 19 - The Feast's End
Chapter 20 - Along Shore
Chapter 21 - The Backward View

The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 book by American writer Sarah Orne Jewett. It is considered by some literary critics to be her finest work. The narrator, a Bostonian, returns after a brief visit a few summers prior, to the small coastal town of Dunnet, Maine, in order to finish writing her book. Upon arriving she settles in with Almira Todd, a widow in her sixties and the local apothecary and herbalist. The narrator occasionally assists Mrs. Todd with her frequent callers, but this distracts her from her writing and she seeks a room of her own. Renting an empty schoolhouse with a broad view of Dunnet Landing, the narrator can apparently concentrate on her writing, although Jewett does not use the schoolhouse to show the narrator at work but rather in meditation and receiving company. The schoolhouse is one of many locations in the novel which Jewett elevates to mythic significance and for the narrator the location is a center of writerly consciousness from which she makes journeys out and to which others make journeys in. - Summary by Wikipedia