The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) (Revised) by Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett's place in American letters was assured when this acclaimed collection of stories about her native state of Maine was first published in 1896. Her crisp style and skillful observation of people and places gives her work lasting appeal.

 

"Immense--it is the very life."
--Rudyard Kipling

 

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.