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  • Published: 31 March 1999
  • ISBN: 9780385092142
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $44.99

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories




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. With a Preface by Willa Cather.

Sarah Orne Jewett's crisp style and skillful observation of people and places gives her work lasting appeal.

  • Published: 31 March 1999
  • ISBN: 9780385092142
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $44.99

About the author

Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett grew up in South Berwick, Maine, near the border of New Hampshire, in Jewett's day a declining New England seaport, where she set most of her fiction.

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