The Country of the Pointed Firs: Tale of a Small-Town Life - Sarah Orne Jewett - Books - e-artnow - 9788027308583 - December 30, 2020
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The Country of the Pointed Firs: Tale of a Small-Town Life

Sarah Orne Jewett

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The Country of the Pointed Firs: Tale of a Small-Town Life

The narrator, a Bostonian, returns after a brief visit a few summers prior, to the small coastal town of Dunnet, Maine, in order to finish writing her book. Upon arriving she settles in with Almira Todd, a widow in her sixties and the local apothecary and herbalist. The narrator occasionally assists Mrs. Todd with her frequent callers, but this distracts her from her writing and she seeks a room of her own. Renting an empty schoolhouse with a broad view of Dunnet Landing, the narrator can apparently concentrate on her writing, although she continues to spend a great deal of time with Mrs. Todd, befriending her hostess and her hostess's family and friends. The schoolhouse becomes a place of mythic significance and for the narrator the location is a center of writerly consciousness from which she makes journeys out and to which others make journeys in, aware of the force of the narrator's presence, out of curiosity, and out of respect for Almira Todd.


72 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 30, 2020
ISBN13 9788027308583
Publishers e-artnow
Pages 72
Dimensions 325 × 245 × 8 mm   ·   120 g
Language English  

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