The Country of the Pointed Firs (eBook)

Tale of a Small-Town Life

Sarah Orne Jewett (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
59 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-406639234-5 (EAN)

Infos

The narrator, a Bostonian, returns after a brief visit a few summers prior, to the small coastal town of Dunnet, Maine, in order to finish writing her book. Upon arriving she settles in with Almira Todd, a widow in her sixties and the local apothecary and herbalist. The narrator occasionally assists Mrs. Todd with her frequent callers, but this distracts her from her writing and she seeks a room of her own. Renting an empty schoolhouse with a broad view of Dunnet Landing, the narrator can apparently concentrate on her writing, although she continues to spend a great deal of time with Mrs. Todd, befriending her hostess and her hostess's family and friends. The schoolhouse becomes a place of mythic significance and for the narrator the location is a center of writerly consciousness from which she makes journeys out and to which others make journeys in, aware of the force of the narrator's presence, out of curiosity, and out of respect for Almira Todd.

Autor

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.10.2020
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: character-driven plot • coastal community • female protagonist • Hemingway • Honeysuckle Season • Huck Finn • introspective narrative • Jack London • Literary Reflections • Maine coastal town • Mrs Dalloway • Nature's Influence • new england setting • Small town friendships • The Awakening • The Great Gatsby • The Last of the Moon Girls • The scarlet letter • To Kill a Mockingbird • Writer's solitude