The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Signet Classics)

In 1896, at the age of forty-seven, Sarah Orne Jewett published this classic novel of a female writer looking for seclusion and inspiration in the coastal town of Dunnet Landing, Maine. Returning to the women and men of small New England towns for the accompanying collection of short fiction, this remarkable volume weaves a colorful and moving tapestry of the grand complexities, joys, and beauties of life.

"The young student of American Literature in far distant years to come will take up this book and say 'a masterpiece.'"-- Willa Cather