A summer visitor's quiet sketches of a declining Maine fishing village and its resilient women. Jewett's luminous classic of regional life.
Books mentioned in The Country of the Pointed Firs (1)
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “Begg and the funeral beside, and Paradise Lost."”
Books that mention The Country of the Pointed Firs (1)
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin: “Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford and Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs are both about a single town and a few strong characters.”