Sarah Orne Jewett was an American writer best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism. Jewett describes the people of Maine with peculiar charm and realism, illuminating their characteristic speech, manners and traditions. Her style sometimes recalls the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Join us in these seven short stories chosen by the critic August Nemo and have a good reading! A Winter Courtship Going to Shrewsbury The White Rose Road The Town Poor A Native of Winby Looking Back on Girlhood The Passing of Sister Barsett
Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.This edition is dedicated to Mary Noailles Murfree, an American fiction writer of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen ...
Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 - June 24, 1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine.
This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, Willa Cather is one of the most famous voices of American Literary Regionalism. His favorite scenario is Maine and his characters are the pioneers whose work helped shape the identity of America.
Features 19 gems in the American short-story tradition, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, plus stories by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Twain, others.
A nine-year-old New England girl has to decide whether or not she will help the ornithologist who is searching for the rare white heron.
A White Heron: And Other Stories
History,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 7, no. ... The Queen's Twin and Other Stories (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), 135–69, and included as well in Willa Cather's collection The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, vol.
This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors.
This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors.