- EAN13
- 9782385820718
- Éditeur
- Quick Read
- Date de publication
- 16/02/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9782385820718
- Fichier EPUB, libre d'utilisation
- Fichier Mobipocket, libre d'utilisation
- Lecture en ligne, lecture en ligne
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Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.
This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each
chapter.
\- Reading time of the complete text: about 4 hours
\- Reading time of the summarized text: 16 minutes
"The Country of the Pointed Firs" is a novel by Sarah Orne Jewett, published
in 1896. The story is set in a small coastal town in Maine, where the
narrator, a Bostonian, returns to finish writing her book. She stays with
Almira Todd, a widow and the local apothecary and herbalist. The narrator
rents an empty schoolhouse to concentrate on her writing, but she spends most
of her time in meditation and receiving company. She befriends Mrs. Todd and
her family, including William, Mrs. Todd's brother, and Mrs. Brackett, her
elderly mother. The narrator attends the Bowden family reunion, a grand event
in the lives of people in Dunnet and the surrounding countryside. She also
befriends Elijah Tilley, an old fisherman lonely and widowed. The novel can be
read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship experienced by the
inhabitants of the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast. The book
was serialized in The Atlantic Monthly and published in book form in Boston
and New York by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in November 1896. It is
considered by some literary critics to be Jewett's finest work.
This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each
chapter.
\- Reading time of the complete text: about 4 hours
\- Reading time of the summarized text: 16 minutes
"The Country of the Pointed Firs" is a novel by Sarah Orne Jewett, published
in 1896. The story is set in a small coastal town in Maine, where the
narrator, a Bostonian, returns to finish writing her book. She stays with
Almira Todd, a widow and the local apothecary and herbalist. The narrator
rents an empty schoolhouse to concentrate on her writing, but she spends most
of her time in meditation and receiving company. She befriends Mrs. Todd and
her family, including William, Mrs. Todd's brother, and Mrs. Brackett, her
elderly mother. The narrator attends the Bowden family reunion, a grand event
in the lives of people in Dunnet and the surrounding countryside. She also
befriends Elijah Tilley, an old fisherman lonely and widowed. The novel can be
read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship experienced by the
inhabitants of the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast. The book
was serialized in The Atlantic Monthly and published in book form in Boston
and New York by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in November 1896. It is
considered by some literary critics to be Jewett's finest work.
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