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	Amazon.ca: The Country of the Pointed Firs: Books: Sarah Jewett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Instead, the reader is treated to a few relaxing months in the country, with nothing to do but listen to the crash of the surf, breathe in the pungent smell of the herb garden, and enjoy the nodding conversations of the sparsely-drawn and just-sufficiently-colorful locals.
		The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett is a masterpiece of world fiction.
		Of that glorious few, "The Country of the Pointed Firs" is by far the shortest and yet, mysteriously and inexplicably, the deepest.
	www.amazon.ca /Country-Pointed-Firs-Sarah-Jewett/dp/0879238941 (1372 words)

	A Revisitation of Transcendentalism within Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs
		Dunnet Landing, the surrounding islands, and the north country where the reunion takes place are all parts of "the country of the pointed firs", and each small environment is remindful of the relationship between nature and spirit.
		As Sherman points out, also in relation to Donovan, the narrator's vocation is by nature isolated: "I agree with Donovan about the central importance of communion; however, I would also stress the importance of solitude and the narrator's dedication to her vocation.
		The narrator watches her: "I lost sight of her as she slowly crossed an open space on one of the higher points of land, and disappeared again behind a dark clump of juniper and the pointed firs" (159).
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	Country of the Pointed Firs - Chapter 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Country of the Pointed Firs - Chapter 11
		I recorded one chapter from the Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett.
		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.
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	3. The Schoolhouse. Jewett, Sarah Orne. 1910. The Country of the Pointed Firs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Todd's customers came and went past my windows, and, haying-time being nearly over, strangers began to arrive from the inland country, such was her widespread reputation.
		The gray ledges of the rocky shore were well covered with sod in most places, and the pasture bayberry and wild roses grew thick among them.
		On the brink of the hill stood a little white schoolhouse, much wind-blown and weather-beaten, which was a landmark to seagoing folk; from its door there was a most beautiful view of sea and shore.
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	Amazon.de: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories.: Bücher: Sarah Orne Jewett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In Sarah Orne Jewwtt's The Country of the Pointed Furs we find ourselves sucked in to a dull town of the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, and as the narrator recounts her visits with the towns people we sit and wait for something to happen but it never does.
		One reader states in her review that "Sarah Orne Jewitt draws the reader into The Country of the Pointed Firs with scenic descriptions, honest characters, and conversations written with true dialect and emotion." The scenic descriptions, honest characters and dialectical dialogue were an asset of the work in which I enjoyed very much.
		The Country of the Pointed Firs speaks of finding fulfillment in a life where loneliness is the human condition.
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	Visions of time in 'The Country of Pointed Firs.' Studies in Short Fiction - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Karen Oakes comments on the "feminine fluidity" in The Country of the Pointed Firs (159); and Ann Romines perceives the structure of the book, with its gentle ebb and flow, as replicating "the domestic rhythms" that women know (75).
		One feminist perspective that has not been fully addressed in discussions of The Country of the Pointed Firs is time, a concept that elucidates both structure and theme in Jewett's work.
		Almira Todd's acceptance of recurring process is evident immediately in The Country of the Pointed Firs when she reveals she has been jilted.
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	BookRags: The Country of the Pointed Firs Study Guide
		The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered by many critics to be the masterpiece of Sarah Orne Jewett, one of the greatest "local color" writers of the nineteenth century.
		Her character sketches of the aging population of seamen and the widows of seamen are inflected with the local Maine dialect, which she captured with accuracy and liveliness.
		In The Country of the Pointed Firs, the unnamed narrator is a writer from Boston who has rented a room for the summer in the home of Mrs.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-countrypointedfirs (337 words)

	Random House for High School Teachers \| Catalog \| The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
		The story of an endearing, unlikely friendship set against the backdrop of a remote and beautiful Maine coastal town, The Country of the Pointed Firs is one of Sarah Orne Jewett's most loved works, and it quickly earned her a reputation as a talented writer upon its publication.
		Ironically, from the book's publication onward, there has been a general assumption from critics and local St. George inhabitants alike, that the events in Pointed Firs actually happened to Jewett, right down to the rental of a schoolhouse in which it is said she tried to write.
		But it is The Country of the Pointed Firs that to this day remains her greatest work.In 1901 Bowdoin College granted her an honorary doctorate in literature—she was the first woman to be so honored by this prominent Maine institution.
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	New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs
		Material culture, empire, and Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, Elizabeth Ammons; 5.
		Regionalism and nationalism in Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs Susan Gillman.
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	Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories - PowerBookSearch!
		The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is Sarah Orne Jewett's most popular book.
		The Country of the Pointer Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece, established her among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction.
		Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs was published in 1896, and it quickly garnered a reputation for its truthfulness and the quality of its writing.
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	21. A Dunnet Shepherdess. Jewett, Sarah Orne. 1910. The Country of the Pointed Firs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		We went northward along a rough, clayey road, across a bare-looking, sunburnt country full of tiresome long slopes where the sun was hot and bright, and I could not help observing the forlorn look of the farms.
		It was the wildest, most Titanic sort of pasture country up there; there was a sort of daring in putting a frail wooden house before it, though it might have the homely field and honest woods to front against.
		He took off his hat just as we were going in, and stopped for a moment to smooth his thin gray hair with his hand, by which I saw that we had an affair of some ceremony.
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	LibriVox » Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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		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.
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		The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett November, 1995 [Etext #367] The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Country of the Pointed Firs ***This file should be named pfirs10.txt or pfirs10.zip**** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, pfirs11.txt.
		FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTSVer.04.29.93END* The Country of the Pointed Firs SARAH ORNE JEWETT Note SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909) was born and died in South Berwick, Maine.
		There is a point on the sheltered side where you can lay a boat close to shore an' land anything safe on the turf out o' reach o' the water.
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	DVD: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Signet Classics (Paperback)) $2.89
		Perhaps it was the simple fact of acquaintance with thаt neighborhood which made it so attaching, and gаvе such interest to the rocky shore and dark woods, and the few houses which seemed to be securely wеdgеd and tree-nailed in among the ledges by the Landing.
		Sarah Orne Jеwеtt's THE COUNTRY OF POINTED FIRS is a visitor's tale.
		Instead, the reader is treated to а few relaxing months in the country, with nothing to do but listen to the crash of the surf, breathe in the рungеnt smell of the herb garden, and enjoy the nodding conversations of the sparsely-drawn and just-sufficiently-colorful lосаls.
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	The Country Of The Pointed Firs And Other Stories - Sarah Orne Jewett - Penguin UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Country of Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece, established her among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction.
		She writes a New England idyll rooted in friendship, particularly female friendship, weaving stories and conversations, imagery of sea, sky and earth, the tang of salt air and aromatic herbs into an organic 'fiction of community' in which themes and form are exquisitely matched.
		To quote Willa Cather: 'The 'Pointed Fir' sketches are living things caught in the open, with light and freedom and air spaces about them.
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	The Country of the Pointed Firs -- Chapter 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Country of the Pointed Firs -- Chapter 7
		GAFFETT WITH his good bunk and the bird-skins, the story of the wreck of the Minerva, the human-shaped creatures of fog and cobweb, the great words of Milton with which he described their onslaught upon the crew, all this moving tale had such an air of truth that I could not argue with Captain Littlepage.
		We were standing where there was a fine view of the harbor and its long stretches of shore all covered by the great army of the pointed firs, darkly cloaked and standing as if they waited to embark.
	www.litrix.com /pfirs/pfirs007.htm (1094 words)

	The Country of the Pointed Firs - Preface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Country of the Pointed Firs - Preface
		ARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909) was born and died in South Berwick, Maine.
		Through her friendship with Howells, Jewett became acquainted with Boston's literary elite, including Annie Fields, with whom she developed one of the most intimate and lasting relationships of her life.
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	Pontine Movement Theatre - Country of the Pointed Firs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Pontine's production of THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS uses storytelling, music, puppets, and masks to create a theatrical context for Jewett's vision of life in New England maritime villages.
		Todd, a country woman whose knowledge of local herbs and traditional medicine earns her living; Mrs.
		Blackett, the matriarch of Green Island who remains a child at heart; and Captain Littlefield, who is haunted by memories of his strange adventures at sea.
	www.pontine.org /html/on_tour/firs.html (300 words)

	The Book Group Review - The Country of the Pointed Firs
		The Country of the Pointed Firs, stories told from the point of view of an outsider, describes the individuality of the late 19th century island community surrounding Dunnet with great fondness and detail.
		This collection of stories also describes the best that small, rural communities have to offer: a close affinity with nature, a strong sense of community, the acceptance of individuals’ quirks and appreciation of their virtues, and the independence which arises from providing for oneself.
		Jewett’s love of the firs, the heath, the rocks, and the people of Maine does not feel narrow-minded.
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	The Country of the Pointed Firs/A White Heron
		The Country of the Pointed Firs/A White Heron
		Lauded by her peers, including Willa Cather, Rudyard Kipling and Henry James, her novel The Country of the Pointed Firs and her voluminous short stories, which celebrate life in New England's hinterlands and on its coast, have never been out of print.
		The Country of the Pointed Firs begins with a thumbnail sketch of the author.
	www.audiobookshelf.com /pointfir.html (192 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog \| The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
		The first seven chapters of The Country of the Pointed Firs appeared in the Atlantic in January 1896, Chapters VIII through XI in March, Chapters XII through XV in July, and Chapters XVI through XIX in September.
		And happily for her continuing readership, there is, now in its proper place, a four-part sequel or postscript set of 'stories.' The artistry of Jewett's creation--remarked upon by such disparate critics/writers as Henry James, Cather, and Kipling--remains as alive and fresh and accessible as the day Jewett wrote the first chapter.
		But it is The Country of the Pointed Firs that to this day remains her greatest work.
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	The Country of the Pointed Firs
		They did not expect to see one another again very soon; the steady, hard work on the farms, the difficulty of getting from place to place, especially in winter when the boats were laid up, gave double value to any occasion which could bring a large number of families together.
		Even funerals in this country of the pointed firs were not without their social advantages and satisfactions.
		I heard the words "next summer" repeated many times, though summer was still ours and all the leaves were green.
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	The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Signet Classics (Paperback)) - Investor Bookstore
		Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs seemed like a good choice for reading while summering in Maine.
		Indeed her character who narrates the book is a woman author spending the summer in a small seaside Maine town.
		Sarah Orne Jewett's THE COUNTRY OF POINTED FIRS is a visitor's tale.
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	Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		I cannot tell you just where Dunnet Landing is except that it must be somewhere 'along shore' between the regions of Tenants Harbor and Boothbay, or it might be farther to the eastward in a country that I know less well.
		It is not any real 'landing' or real 'harbor' but I am glad to think that you also know that beautiful stretch of seacoast country, and so we can feel when we think about it, as if we were neighbours.
		It is just the same way that a beautiful picture makes us quicker to see the same things in a landscape, to look for rich clouds and trees, and see their beauty.
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	The Country of the Pointed Firs Essays and Criticism
		The Country of the Pointed Firs Essays and Criticism
		Theme of Death in The Country of the Pointed Firs
		Tell a friend about The Country of the Pointed Firs at eNotes.
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	Library of America: Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels and Stories
		Four of the short stories continue the story of The Country of the Pointed Firs and are placed in a separate section immediately following that novel.
		The Country of the Pointed Firs was serialized in four parts in the Atlantic (Jan., March, July, and Sept. 1896).
		Posthumous editions of The Country of the Pointed Firs, prepared by others, included these last stories as part of the book; but since Jewett herself never did, the four stories are published in a separate section in this volume.
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	Fiction Literature Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		But I think she did a marvelous job at showing the differences between the generations and how exposure to new ideas, cultures and technology can quickly change the traditions of a culture; sometimes the change is good and beneficial, sometimes it's detrimental.
		I also like how she juxtiposed Yuan, who tries to hold on to his tradition and country and resists change, to other family members who embraced the change with all their hearts.
		Yuan is caught in a trap by his education, neither belonging wholly to either the old China or the new, his heart as divided as his family - half live in the modern coastal city and half live back in the country.
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	The Country of the Pointed Firs -- Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Country of the Pointed Firs -- Chapter 1
		THERE WAS SOMETHING about the coast town of Dunnet which made it seem more attractive than other maritime villages of eastern Maine.
		It may not be reproduced, reposted or otherwise distributed without permission of Litrix Reading Room.
	www.litrix.com /pfirs/pfirs001.htm (262 words)

	Country of the Pointed Firs - Al Young's Art Gallery of Scenes from Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Country of the Pointed Firs - Al Young's Art Gallery of Scenes from Literature
		Country of the Pointed Firs is just across the threshold of this limited-edition lithograph.
		The day itself seems to gather along the horizon, and look with renewing hope among the pointed firs.
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