{"product_id":"the-country-of-the-pointed-sarah-orne-jewett-9780140434767","title":"The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe masterpiece that established Sarah Orne Jewett among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eComposed in a series of beautiful web-like sketches, the novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city to work one summer in the Maine seaport of Dunnet Landing, and stays with the herbalist Mrs. Almira Todd. She writes a New England idyll rooted in friendship, particularly female friendship, weaving stories and conversations, imagery of sea, sky and earth, the tang of salt air and aromatic herbs into an organic \"fiction of community\" in which themes and form are exquisitely matched. To quote Willa Cather: \"The 'Pointed Fir' sketches are living things caught in the open, with light and freedom and air spaces about them. They melt into the land and the life of the land until they are not stories at all, but life itself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition, introduced by Alison Easton, also includes ten of Sarah Orne Jewett's short stories, among them \"The Queen's Twin,\" \"The Foreigner\" and \"William's Wedding,\" set in Dunnet Landing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Orne Jewett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0140434763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140434767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e50681 \/ Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sarah Orne Jewett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048960749823,"sku":"9780140434767","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ad12723d-5b1b-4783-a11d-86b6bca8e36e.jpg?v=1684998806","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-country-of-the-pointed-sarah-orne-jewett-9780140434767","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}