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"The Country of the Pointed Firs" by Sarah Orne Jewett. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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"A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches" by Sarah Orne Jewett. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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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.

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First serialized in “The Atlantic Monthly” and then published as a novel in 1896, Sarah Orne Jewett’s “The Country of the Pointed Firs” is the story of a female writer seeking isolation and inspiration for her writing in the small coastal New England town of Dunnet Landing in the late 1800’s. Originally from Boston and drawn back to the quiet town after a visit years earlier, the narrator is at first frustrated by the constant interruptions of the small village’s inhabitants and seeks out the solitude she needs to concentrate on her work. However, she becomes increasingly drawn into the lives of her neighbors and finds herself becoming more and more a part of their community and emotionally invested in these new relationships. Considered by many to be Jewett’s finest work, the novel is rich with the dialect of the region and the culture of the time. “The Country of the Pointed Firs” is an intimate and very human examination of the relationships amongst the inhabitants of a decaying and isolated rural village and their vanishing way of life. This edition includes a biographical afterword.

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In scene after memorable scene of Sarah Orne Jewett's fictional masterpiece, The Country of Pointed Firs, the Maine-born author recorded what she felt were the rapidly disappearing traditions, manners, and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the twentieth century. In luminous evocations of their lives — a happy family reunion, an old seaman's ghostly vision, a disappointed lover's self-imposed exile, and more — Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of the New England character.No less a writer than Willa Cather ranked The Country of the Pointed Firs — with Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — as one of the three American works most likely to achieve permanent recognition. Long overlooked, Sarah Orne Jewett is today widely acknowledged as an American master and The Country of the Pointed Firs as a landmark in the defining of American character and the American experience.

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Sara Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was an American regionalist and feminist writer, in the circle of writers like Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Born in South Berwick, Maine, Jewett had a happy, peaceful childhood where she developed a strong affinity to the nature and people of rural New England. Her first novel, «A Country Doctor», is a semi-autobiographical work about a young girl's struggle to choose between a medical career and marriage. Like most of Jewett's work, the novel gives a striking, realistic depiction of the world, but also illustrates her more transcendental worldview. Jewett portrays an independent woman whose talents and desires drive her away from the traditional role of wife, and the novels exploration of gender, society, and human nature are as prevalent today as they were upon its publication in 1884.

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We love ghost stories here at Wildside Press. If you've read the first 3 volumes in the Ghost Story MEGAPACK™ series, plus The Macabre MEGAPACK™ series, you’re pretty well caught up with the classic supernatural fiction we've been reading lately. Don't worry, though – we'll keep digging for more classic horror tales!<P> Included in this volume are:<P> THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS, by Amelia B. Edwards<BR> THREE SPANISH LADIES, by Walter E Marconette<BR> BRICKETT BOTTOM, by Amyas Northcote<BR> ACROSS THE GULF, by Henry S. Whitehead<BR> THE NIGHT CALL, by Henry van Dyke<BR> HIS UNQUIET GHOST, by Mary Noailles Murfree<BR> THE DREAM-GOWN OF THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR, by Brander Matthews<BR> THE MAN IN THE MIRROR, by Lillian B. Hunt<BR> HIS DAY BACK, by Jack Brant<BR> MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY, by Rudyard Kipling<BR> THE LONG CHAMBER, by Olivia Howard Dunbar<BR> THE PAST, by Ellen Glasgow<BR> MISS TEMPY'S WATCHERS, by Sarah Orne Jewett<BR> THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN, by Charles Dickens<BR> THE BULLY OF BROCAS COURT, by Arthur Conan Doyle<BR> THE SPIRAL STONE, by Arthur Willis Colton<BR> THE GHOST OF THE BLUE CHAMBER, by Jerome K. Jerome<BR> THE MINIATURE, by J. Y. Akerman<BR> TO LET, by B. M. Croker<BR> THE FOREIGNER, by Sarah Orne Jewett<BR> THE STONEGROUND GHOST TALES, by E. G. Swain<BR> THEY THAT MOURN, by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins <BR> GREEN BRANCHES, by Fiona Macleod<BR> THE WERE-WOLF, by H. B. Marryatt<BR> THE GHOST AT POINT OF ROCKS, by Frank H. Spearman<P> If you enjoy this ebook, search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see the 170+ entries in the MEGAPACK™ series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!

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This collection of delightful Christmas stories from the pages of «The Century Illustrated Magazine» includes the works of such notable nineteenth-century authors as Sarah Orne Jewett, Jacob Riis, Frank R. Stockton, and Ruth McEnery Stuart, among many others. Editor Barbara Quarton's introductory comments provide valuable context for each story, heightening the experience for readers unfamiliar with the circumstances of daily life in turn-of-the-century America. Curl up in front of a fire—and prepare to be charmed by Pop Baker, Cousin Fanny, Wulfy, and the snow babies. «Christmas Stories Rediscovered» is a wonderful holiday read!

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