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The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, is an 1896 novella and early example of the regionalism genre with its sketches of the fictional fishing village of Dunnet Landing in Maine. The narrator is a woman from Boston who returns to the small coastal town after a brief earlier visit, in order to finish writing her book. She rents an empty schoolhouse with a panoramic view of Dunnet Landing, which serves as a focus of narrative consciousness....
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"In 1896 ... Sarah Orne Jewett published her finest work, The Country of the Pointed Firs, about a woman writer who retreats one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, to find seclusion to do her work. In the novel and stories collected here, Jewett explores the world of the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal towns, offering a detailed view of lives molded by the long Maine winters, by the surrounding rock-filled fields, and by...
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Eighteen-year-old Ruth Thomas, born on Fort Niles, arrives home from school determined to join the men who work the lobster boats, placing herself squarely in the middle of a generations-old feud over fishing rights between the lobstermen of Fort Niles and Courne Haven, but when she spies Owney Wishnell, a silent young Courne Haven dreamboat, she begins to long for a truce.
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