The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0451531442
- ISBN-13
- 9780451531445
- Series
- The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Authors
- Sarah Orne Jewett, Anita Shreve, Peter Balaam
Description
Featuring a new Afterword by Balaam, this collection contains the novel "The Country of Pointed Firs" and several stories in which Jewett explores the world of the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous towns along Maine's coast. Revised reissue.
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Other editions
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- 1996-05-01
- - pages
- Paperback
- National Geographic Books
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- 1990-01-01
- 320 pages
- Paperback
- Peter Smith Publisher
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