The country of the pointed firs / Sarah Orne Jewett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors--Fiction.

Women authors.

Country life.

Manners and customs.

Maine.

New England.

Maine--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

New England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

Country life--Maine--19th century--Fiction.

Maine--19th century--Fiction.

Local color in literature.

Pastoral literature.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

141 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

CommonPlace edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster Editions, [1997]

Summary:

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), by Sarah Orne Jewett, tells a story spanning three months' time in the life of a small coastal town called Dunnet Landing in nineteenth-century Maine. A lone female visitor arrives and finds lodging with the widowed Mrs. Todd, the town's herbalist, who introduces the visitor to many of the town's inhabitants. The visitor's impressions of the people she meets start out simply, and then almost invisibly they crescendo into a deep, intense human portrait.

Notes:

"1896."

"A CommonPlace book."

Includes several pages of black and white photographs taken during the era portrayed in the story (various photographers).

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has laid in card from the publisher identifying it as an advance copy.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0684819090

9780684819099

OCLC:

33948948