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The Country of Pointed Firs

Sarah Orne Jewett

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English
Melville House Publishing
31 August 2010
The story of an endearing, unlikely friendship set against the backdrop of a remote and beautiful Maine coastal town, The Country of Pointed Firs is one of Sarah Orne Jewett's most loved works, and it quickly earned her a reputation as a talented writer upon its publication. Praised by Alice Brown for its ""idyllic atmosphere of country life,"" Jewett's moving novel shows her intimate understanding of New England and its unique inhabitants, whose prickly exteriors often concealed a warm and loyal nature.
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Imprint:   Melville House Publishing
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 172mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   169g
ISBN:   9781935554103
ISBN 10:   1935554107
Pages:   160
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely

Sarah Orne Jewett grew up in South Berwick, Maine, near the border of New Hampshire, in Jewett's day a declining New England seaport, where she set most of her fiction.

Reviews for The Country of Pointed Firs

I wanted them all, even those I'd already read. --Ron Rosenbaum, The New York Observer Small wonders. --Time Out London [F]irst-rate...astutely selected and attractively packaged...indisputably great works. --Adam Begley, The New York Observer I've always been haunted by Bartleby, the proto-slacker. But it's the handsomely minimalist cover of the Melville House edition that gets me here, one of many in the small publisher's fine 'Art of the Novella' series. --The New Yorker The Art of the Novella series is sort of an anti-Kindle. What these singular, distinctive titles celebrate is book-ness. They're slim enough to be portable but showy enough to be conspicuously consumed--tiny little objects that demand to be loved for the commodities they are. --KQED (NPR San Francisco) Some like it short, and if you're one of them, Melville House, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has a line of books for you... elegant-looking paperback editions ...a good read in a small package. --The Wall Street Journal


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