The Country of the Pointed Firs

by Jewett, Sarah Orne

• ISBN13: 9780486281964
• ISBN10: 0486281965
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-02
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous and compassionate vision of New England character.

Table of Contents

Contents

I. The Return

II Mrs. Todd

III The Schoolhouse

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