The Country of Pointed Firs and Other Stories
A writer comes one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, where she follows the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal towns. Here, lives are molded by the long Maine winters, rock-filled fields and strong resourceful women.
A writer comes one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, where she follows the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal towns. Here, lives are molded by the long Maine winters, rock-filled fields and strong resourceful women.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101145500 (1101145501)
Publish date: November 3rd 2009
Publisher: Signet Classics
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
bookshelves: spring-2014, gardening, forest, gutenberg-project, e-book, lit-richer, maine, published-1896, victorian, travel, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, period-piece, north-americas, women Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: Wanda Read from May 16 to 18, 2014 Read for free: ...
I have no idea where this book came from, sometime in the past few years it just sort of appeared on the bookshelf in my old room at my parents...I probably picked it up at a yard sale before leaving for school one summer.The prose is engaging, features dead-on dialect, and good folkisms; it's real ...