The Country Of The Pointed Firs

by Sarah Orne Jewett

Overview

Sarah Orne Jewett's place in American letters was assured when this acclaimed collection of stories about her native state of Maine was first published in 1896. Her crisp style and skillful observation of people and places gives her work lasting appeal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438503134
Publisher:	Book Jungle
Publication date:	10/22/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	7.59(w) x 9.31(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

Deborah Carlin is Professor of American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sarah Orne Jewett: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Country of the Pointed Firs
The Dunnet Landing Stories

• “The Queen’s Twin” (1899)
  “A Dunnet Shepherdess” (1899)
  “The Foreigner” (1900)
  “William’s Wedding” (1910)

Appendix A: Before The Country of the Pointed Firs:
Precursors and Influences

1. Sarah Orne Jewett, Preface to Deephaven (1893)
2. Sarah Orne Jewett, Chapter Five, “The Captains,” from Deephaven (1893)
3. Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Aunt Roxy and Aunt Ruey,” Chapter Four of The Pearl of Orr’s Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862)

Appendix B: Local Color Literature: Nineteenth-Century Formulations and Definitions

1. William Dean Howells, “Editor’s Study” (1887)
2. Hamlin Garland, “Local Color in Art” (1894)
3. Bret Harte, “The Rise of the ‘Short Story’” (1899)

Appendix C: Selected Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett

1. To Annie Fields (June 1885)
2. From a letter to Annie Fields (12 October 1890)
3. From a letter to Annie Fields (1899 or 1890)
4. To Willa Sibert Cather (27 November 1908)
5. To Willa Sibert Cather (13 December 1908)

Appendix D: Reviews of The Country of the Pointed Firs

1. Overland Monthly (29 January 1897)
2. Atlantic Monthly (February 1897)
3. The Critic (13 February 1897)
4. The Nation (15 April 1897)
5. Alice Brown, Book Buyer (15 October 1897)

Appendix E: Profiles of Sarah Orne Jewett

1. Anonymous, “Miss Jewett” (January 1894)
2. Anonymous, “Pleasant Day With Miss Jewett” (August 1895)

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Editorial Reviews

In this centenary year of the author’s death Broadview Press is to be commended for bringing forth an excellent new edition of Sarah Orne Jewett’s great work, The Country of the Pointed Firs. Considered by Willa Cather one of the American books guaranteed to endure, the text is here reproduced in its original integrity, after which are appended the sequel Dunnet Landing stories. Deborah Carlin’s exceptionally informative annotations to the text will greatly enrich readers’ appreciation and understanding. Also supplied is a useful selection of supplementary critical and historical material, including a rare, little-known, and very valuable 1895 interview with Jewett. The Country of the Pointed Firs is a distinguished addition to the impressive Broadview Editions series; I highly recommend it for classroom use, as well as for the general reader.” — Josephine Donovan, Professor Emerita of English, University of Maine

From the Publisher

"In this centenary year of the author's death Broadview Press is to be commended for bringing forth an excellent new edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's great work, The Country of the Pointed Firs. Considered by Willa Cather one of the American books guaranteed to endure, the text is here reproduced in its original integrity, after which are appended the sequel Dunnet Landing stories. Deborah Carlin's exceptionally informative annotations to the text will greatly enrich readers' appreciation and understanding. Also supplied is a useful selection of supplementary critical and historical material, including a rare, little-known, and very valuable 1895 interview with Jewett. The Country of the Pointed Firs is a distinguished addition to the impressive Broadview Editions series; I highly recommend it for classroom use, as well as for the general reader."

Josephine Donovan University of Maine