| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781434638625 | | Publisher: Biblio Bazaar | | Publish Date: 2/12/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 206913395 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8H x 5L x 0.5T | | Pages: 124 |
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| | | Set in Dunnet Landing, Maine in a summer of the late 1800s, "The Country of the Pointed Firs," is the story of a female writer seeking isolation and inspiration for her writing in a small coastal New England town. Rich with the dialect of the region and the culture of the time "The Country of the Pointed Firs" is an intimate examination of the relationships amongst the members of a rural New England fishing village in the late 1800s.
| Author Bio| Sarah Orne Jewett | | Born in Maine and the daughter of a physician, Sarah Orne Jewett used her surroundings as key elements in her writing. She wrote from childhood, and published her first story in the September 1873 issue of the Atlantic Monthly when she was 18. Over the course of her 30-year career, she published 150 tales in mass-circulation magazines, as well as children's stories, several novels, and a history. Her stories are known for their sparseness, their realistic detail, their clean and clear expository style. She lived and traveled with with Annie Fields, the widow of a publisher, from her early 30s until the end of her life. The two women were friends with many prominent artists and intellectuals, among them Kipling, Howells, and James. In the late 1800s, Jewett suffered an accident in a carriage that essentially put an end to her writing, although she continued to befriend and advise other writers, such as Willa Cather. |
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