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Beschreibung
The Country of Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece established her among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction. Composed in a series of beautiful web-like sketches the novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city to work one summer in the Maine seaport of Dunnet Landing and stays with the herbalist Mrs Almira Todd. 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. They melt into the land and the life of the land until they are not stories at all but life itself'. This edition introduced by Alison Easton also includes ten of Sarah Orne Jewett's short stories among them 'The Queen's Twin' 'The Foreigner' and 'William's Wedding' set in Dunnet Landing.
The Country of Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece established her among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction. Composed in a series of beautiful web-like sketches the novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city to work one summer in the Maine seaport of Dunnet Landing and stays with the herbalist Mrs Almira Todd. 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. They melt into the land and the life of the land until they are not stories at all but life itself'. This edition introduced by Alison Easton also includes ten of Sarah Orne Jewett's short stories among them 'The Queen's Twin' 'The Foreigner' and 'William's Wedding' set in Dunnet Landing.
Über den 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.
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780140434767
ISBN-10: 0140434763
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jewett, Sarah Orne
Redaktion: Easton, Alison
Illustrator: Burke, Shirley
Hersteller: Penguin Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Sarah Orne Jewett
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.1996
Gewicht: 0,367 kg
Artikel-ID: 101431690

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