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The country of the pointed firs, and selected short fiction

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Main Author: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005.
Subjects:
Women authors > Fiction.
Seaside resorts > Fiction.
Summer resorts > Fiction.
Country life > Fiction.
Authorship > Fiction.
Maine > Fiction.
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Physical Description:xxix, 386 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1593082622 (pbk.)
9781593082628 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was born in South Berwick, Maine on September 3, 1849. Unable to attend school because of arthritis, she learned about coastal life in New England as she accompanied her father, a doctor, on his rounds. He encouraged both her reading and her writing. When she began submitting fiction in 1867, using the pseudonyms A. D. Eliot, Alice Eliot, and Sarah C. Sweet, her chosen topic was often the life and people of her native, rural Maine.

Her first published story appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1869 and her first short story collection, Deephaven, was published in 1877. Her first novel, A Country Doctor was published in 1884. Her other works include A Marsh Island (1885), A White Heron and Other Stories (1886), A Native of Winby (1893), Tales of New England (1894) and The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896). She stopped writing in 1902, after a fall left her with severe head injuries. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage on June 24, 1909.

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