The Country of the Pointed Firs
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Sarah Orne Jewett
(4,267 Sterne; 15 Bewertungen)
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James’s diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because it is loosely structured, many critics view the book not as a novel, but a series of sketches; however, its structure is unified through both setting and theme. Jewett herself felt that her strengths as a writer lay not in plot development or dramatic tension, but in character development. Indeed, she determined early in her career to preserve a disappearing way of life, and her novel can be read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship on the inhabitants who lived in the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast.
(summary from Gutenberg e-text) (4 hr 25 min)
Chapters
Bewertungen
Derek
(3 Sterne)
Chapter 6 was inaudible at highest volume setting. Chapter 7 was read by a person with a heavy accent and was difficult to follow. Test of the readers were great.
Unknown
(5 Sterne)
I love the descriptions of nature, the sea, family, and the passage of time. What makes life full? The people.
A summer vacation in a Maine coast town.
American History
(3 Sterne)