Signet Classics The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories, (Paperback)

from CurrerBell

I highly recommend this edition. Although I also have the Library of America edition of Jewett, this volume is a wonderful accessory simply for the eight-page introduction by the late Mary Ellen Chase, herself a highly regarded novelist and for many years a professor and eventually department cha...

from Marensr

Sarah Orne Jewett's THE COUNTRY OF POINTED FIRS is a visitor's tale. Set in the fictional Maine coast town of Dunnet Landing where the author/narrator has settled for the summer to write. As a visitor, the narrator inevitably recounts only the pieces of history she comes in contact with through h...

from d.homsher

Story told by a self-effacing first-person narrator who resides with an older woman, a Maine herbalist, for the summer. Her hostess is sturdy native who introduces the (nameless) narrator to a cast of seafaring folk who belong to an earlier, stronger generation. Set in late nineteenth century.Suc...

from SeriousGrace

It could take you a day to read The Country of the Painted Firs. A mere 88 pages in length, you could spend just an afternoon with Ms. Jewett's novel. That being said, I urge you to take more time with this sweet little book. This is portrait of turn of the century coastal Maine living at its sim...

from doogiewray

Characters that equal Mark Twain's. One of the first books that I ever read while on Monhegan Island, and, while it is not specifically about Monhegan, I will always associate this book with my time there (hence the Monhegan Island tag). When I return to Monhegan Island each year, the feeling I h...