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Composed in a series of web-like sketches, this novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city to work one summer in the Maine seaport of Dunnet Landing. She writes a New England idyll rooted in friendship, weaving stories and conversations, the tang of salt air and aromatic herbs into an organic 'fiction of community'.
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The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories, Sarah Orne Jewett
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- Released
- 1995
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 1995
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140434763
- ISBN13
- 9780140434767
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Nature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Short Stories, American Literature, 19th century, Everyday Life
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- Composed in a series of web-like sketches, this novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city to work one summer in the Maine seaport of Dunnet Landing. She writes a New England idyll rooted in friendship, weaving stories and conversations, the tang of salt air and aromatic herbs into an organic 'fiction of community'.