Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

<b>A rich collection of classic American literature potraying the beauty of a 19th-century New England town.</b> <p/>A female writer comes one summer to Dunnet Landing a Maine seacoast town where she follows the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal communities. Here lives are molded by the long Maine winters rock-filled fields and strong resourceful women. <p/>Throughout Sarah Orne Jewett's novel and stories these quiet tales of a simpler American life capture the inspirational in the everyday: the importance of honest friendships the value of family and the gift of community. <p/><i>Their counterparts are in every village in the world thank heaven and the gift to one's life is only in its discernment. </i>