The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Fiction
The Country of the Pointed Firs combines Jewett's classic novella and its four short sequels with nine of her best stories, including five unavailable in any other paperback edition. They illustrate the range of her literary style and exemplify her interest in the position of women in...
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The Country of the Pointed Firs combines Jewett's classic novella and its four short sequels with nine of her best stories, including five unavailable in any other paperback edition. They illustrate the range of her literary style and exemplify her interest in the position of women in nineteenth-century America. Terry Heller's introduction examines the work within the mainstream of American literature, and detailed annotation, as well as a list of the plant and herb lore to which Jewett makes reference, further illuminate these tales.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192831903 (0192831909)
Publish date: April 11th 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 662
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 ...
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