Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett<br><br>I always think of her as of one who hear ing New England accused of being a bleak land without beauty passes confidently over the snow and by the gray rock and past the dark fir tree to a southern bank and there brushing away the decayed leaves triumphantly shows to the fault finder a spray of the trailing arbutus. And I should like for my own part to add this: that the fragrant retiring exquisite ?ower which I think she would say is the symbol of New England virtue is the symbol also of her own modest and delightful art.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.