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1. The country of the pointed firs, and other stories by Sarah Orne, 1849-1909. Jewett | |
Paperback:
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(1996)
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2. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 Jewett | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2005-06-04)
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3. Biography - Jewett, (Theodora) Sarah Orne (1849-1909): An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team | |
Digital: 22
Pages
(2003-01-01)
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4. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909: A critical bibliography of secondary comment by Clayton L Eichelberger | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1969)
Asin: B0007H96M4 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
5. The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett by Jack Morgan, Louis A. Renza | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(1996-12-30)
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6. New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs (The American Novel) | |
Paperback: 132
Pages
(1994-05-27)
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7. Sarah Orne Jewett : Novels and Stories : Deephaven / A Country Doctor / The Country of the Pointed Firs / Dunnet Landing Stories / Selected Stories & Sketches (Library of America) by Sarah Orne Jewett | |
Hardcover: 950
Pages
(1994-02-01)
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comforting place to visit Okay, the time has finally come for me to make a horrible personal admission.I've had a secret foryears now, one that strikes right to the core of my manhood : of an evening, I enjoy a nice cup of tea. Actually, it's an enormous mug and I steep the tea until it looks like coffee, but I still acknowledgehow sketchy it all appears.Nor do I imagine my case will be helped if I state that I most often enjoysaid beverage on Sunday nights during Booknotes on CSPAN, though as a general matter I dooccasionally partake when I sit down to read, after we get the kids to bed.There--I've said it--thatmonkey's off my back.Why here?Why now?Because, this book may be the sine qua non oftea-sipping books. Perhaps the central theme that we've been developing over the course of these reviews is the existenceof a fundamental tension in human affairs, between the basically feminine desire for security and thebasically masculine desire for freedom.We've examined many examples of the latter--everythingfrom Huckleberry Finn to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--but good examples of the former havebeen rarer, presumably because I just read fewer women authors.(Though we have found some goodexamples, try particularly the review of The House of Gentle Men)Now we come to Sarah OrneJewett's lovely short novel, The Country of Pointed Firs, and the very essence of the book is the valueof friendship (particularly female friendship), community, and continuity in providing an atmosphereof security and a bulwark against the encroachments of a changing world. The semiautobiographical novel tells of a young woman writer spending a summer in the fictionaltown of Dunnett Landing on the coast of Maine.There she is adopted into a loose knit group ofwomen who weave a web of stories about the town, the surrounding islands and the folks who live, orlived, there.This narrative tradition and the time spent in each others company take on the quality ofritual, and in light of their dismissal of the local pastor, a nearly religious ritual.In addition, Jewett'scomparisons of the women to figures out of Greek drama and classical myth gives them a timelessquality.Most of all, there is her portrayal of the women as a phenomenon of Nature, arisingorganically from, and blending into, the rugged landscape. The effect of all of this is that as the women speak they seem to be tapping into an eternal tradition. Their voices and stories summoning echoes from the past, not just of Dunnett Landing, but of similarcommunities across time and space.The term that has apparently been adopted to describe this kind ofnovel is "fiction of community," and that's a perfect description.There's something wonderfullycomforting about the togetherness, shared sense of experience and the act of communal memory thatJewett's stories summon. The flip side of this however is that the novel, not surprisingly since it is so clearly a response toclassic masculine fiction, suffers from some inevitable weaknesses when judged by those standards.Itis almost totally formless and plotless, being little more than a collection of reminiscences.Itcelebrates stasis rather than progress and at some level reflects a genuine and unhealthy fear of humandevelopment in general, and of industrialization specifically.Though relentlessly good natured, thereis a marked indifference or even hostility to traditional religion.Politics and economics arecompletely, and unrealistically, absent from the scene. Just as the "action" of the novel occurs at the very edge of the nation, figuratively outside the boundsof late 19th Century America, so the community it describes is a utopian one that is an alternative toour actual Western culture.Ultimately, that utopia, like most, seems like it might be a nice place tovisit but like it would prove stultifying to the human spirit, the longing to discover and to achieve, thedesire of the young to create their own place in the world rather than to simply assume a bequeathedplace in their parent's.There's always something comforting about maternal unconditional love, butwe prefer it in smaller doses; too much becomes cloying and suffocating. The Country of the Pointed Firs is a comforting place to visit--try it with a big mug of tea by yourside--but it's not a place you'd want to live. GRADE: B ... Read more |
8. Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World and Her Work (Radcliffe Biography Series) by Paula Blanchard | |
Hardcover: 397
Pages
(1994-09)
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9. The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Sarah Orne Jewett | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(1996-05-01)
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Jewett is a jewel
Wonderful little book
Visit Coastal Maine 100 Years Ago
A wonderful read...
Visit the Country |
10. A Sarah Orne Jewett Companion by Robert L. Gale | |
Hardcover: 368
Pages
(1999-06-30)
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11. Sarah Orne Jewett's Feminine Pastoral Vision: The Country of the Pointed Firs (Studies in American Literature, 57) by Jeff Morgan | |
Hardcover: 168
Pages
(2002-12)
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12. Master Smart Woman: A Portrait of Sarah Orne Jewett (Based on ;the Film By Jane Morrison in Collaboration With Peter Namuth) by C. L. Keyworth | |
Paperback: 179
Pages
(1988-07)
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Brief Glimpse Into Jewett's Life |
13. Critical Essays on Sarah Orne Jewett (Critical Essays on American Literature) | |
Hardcover: 254
Pages
(1984-09)
list price: US$40.00 Isbn: 0816184224 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
14. Sarah Orne Jewett (Pamphlets on American Writers) by Margaret Farrand Thorp | |
Paperback: 48
Pages
(1966-06)
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15. Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender by Margaret Roman | |
Hardcover: 264
Pages
(1992-01-30)
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16. Sarah Orne Jewett, an American Persephone by Sarah Way Sherman | |
Paperback: 357
Pages
(1989-07-15)
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17. Sarah Orne Jewett by Elizabeth Silverthorne | |
Hardcover: 238
Pages
(1993-04-01)
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18. Sarah Orne Jewett by Richard Cary | |
Textbook Binding:
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(1974-06)
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19. Sarah Orne Jewett (Modern Literature Series) by Josephine Donovan | |
Hardcover: 165
Pages
(1980-10)
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20. Transcendent Daughters in Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs by Joseph Church | |
Hardcover: 202
Pages
(1994-12)
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