Item #2330638 The Country of Pointed Firs and Other Stories (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature). Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather.

The Country of Pointed Firs and Other Stories (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Emmons, Chansonetta Stanley. Reissue. Full-Leather. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #2330638

Faint blemishes to gilt on edges, edges of endpapers faded.

xx, 424, [1] pp. Full brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with the photographs of Chansonetta Stanley Emmons. Here in the fictional town of Dunnett's Landing on the coast of Maine, Sarah Orne Jewett introduces people—now mostly women, as many of the town's men have been lost at sea or moved away in this era of whaling's decline—who have lived next to the sea for generations and seem to share its strength, silence and mystery. In prose of exquisite simplicity, Jewett draws a resonant portrait of people creating and tending bonds of relationship in a landscape buffetted by the forces of isolation as well as nature's severity. Includes: Preface by Willa Cather; The Country of Pointed Firs: I. The Return; II. Mrs. Todd; III. The Schoolhouse Window; 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; A White Heron; The Dulham Ladies; Miss Tempy's Watchers; Going to Shrewsbury; The Town Poor; The Hiltons' Holiday; The Only Rose; The Guests of Mrs. Timms; The Flight of Betsey Lane; Martha's Lady; The Queen's Twin; Aunt Cynthy Dallett; A Dunnet Shepherdess; William's Wedding. "Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport."

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