Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett
English
⏱ 4h 25m
20 chapters
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The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James’s diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because it is loosely structured, many critics view the book not as a novel, but a series of sketches; however, its structure is unified through both setting and theme. Jewett herself felt that her strengths as a writer lay not in plot development or dramatic tension, but in character development. Indeed, she determined early in her career to preserve a disappearing way of life, and her novel can be read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship on the inhabitants who lived in the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast.<br />
(summary from Gutenberg e-text)
(summary from Gutenberg e-text)
Chapters
1
The Return / Mrs. Todd
11m
2
The Schoolhouse
5m
3
At the Schoolhouse Window
6m
4
Captain Littlepage
14m
5
The Waiting Place
13m
6
The Outer Island
6m
7
Green Island
21m
8
William
6m
9
Where Pennyroyal Grew
10m
10
The Old Singers
8m
11
A Strange Sail
13m
12
Poor Joanna
20m
13
The Hermitage
14m
14
On Shell-heap Island
7m
15
The Great Expedition
12m
16
A Country Road
13m
17
The Bowden Reunion
26m
18
The Feast’s End
11m
19
Along Shore
28m
20
The Backward View
9m