Sarah Orne Jewett
Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was born on September 3, 1849 to Caroline Frances Perry and Dr. Theodore Herman Jewett. Her father, a physician, was the son of a prosperous merchant in South Berwick, Maine, a shipbuilding and manufacturing town upriver from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Her childhood was a comfortable one, rich in the cultural and educational activities of a thriving New England town. But Sarah, as she was known, was considered a sickly child, and her father often took her on his rounds to visit patients, bringing her into contact with other rural New Englanders whose experiences and circumstances were quite different...
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eBook | pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-553-90520-5 (0-553-90520-1)
June 24, 2008 | $5.95
Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett’s first novel, A Country Doctor, is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical look at her world. In it...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics; Fiction - Literary
978-0-375-75671-9 (0-375-75671-X)
January 9, 2001 | $14.50
The story of an endearing, unlikely friendship set against the backdrop of a remote and beautiful Maine coastal town, The Country of the Pointed Firs is one of Sarah Orne Jewett's most loved works, and it quickly earned her a reputation as a talented writer upon its publication. Praised by Alice...
eBook | pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-679-64159-9 (0-679-64159-9)
November 1, 2000 | $12.99
Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs was published in 1896, and it quickly garnered a reputation for its truthfulness and the quality of its writing. Rudyard Kipling described it as 'immense--it is the very life,' and Henry James praised it for being 'absolutely true--not a word overdone--such elegance...
Paperback | 304 pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-553-21498-7 (0-553-21498-5)
April 6, 1999 | $5.95
Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett’s first novel, A Country Doctor, is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical look at her world. In it...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-385-09214-2 (0-385-09214-8)
February 11, 1954 | $15.00
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.
