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title	:	The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories Hardscrabble Books
author	:	Jewett, Sarah Orne.; Sherman, Sarah Way.
publisher	:	University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin	:	0874518261
print isbn13	:	9780874518269
ebook isbn13	:	9780585237916
language	:	English
subject	United States--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction, Maine--Social life and customs--Fiction, Women--Maine--Fiction.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	PS2132.C64 1997eb
ddc	:	813/.4
subject	:	United States--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction, Maine--Social life and customs--Fiction, Women--Maine--Fiction.

Page i The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

Page ii HARDSCRABBLE BOOKSFiction of New England Laurie Alberts, The Price of Land in Shelby Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy Anne Bernays, Professor Romeo Chris Bohjalian, Water Witches Sean Connolly, A Great Place to Die Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Mark J. Madigan, ed.), Seasoned Timber Joseph Freda, Suburban Guerrillas Ernest Hebert, The Dogs of March Ernest Hebert, Live Free or Die Sarah Orne Jewett (Sarah Way Sherman, ed.), The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories Kit Reed, J. Eden Rowland E. Robinson (David Budbill, ed.), Danvis Tales: Selected Stories Roxana Robinson, Summer Light Rebecca Rule, The Best Revenge: Short Stories Theodore Weesner, Novemberfest W. D. Wetherell, The Wisest Man in America Edith Wharton (Barbara A. White, ed.), Wharton's New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome Thomas Williams, The Hair of Harold Roux

Page iii The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories Centennial Edition Sarah Orne Jewett Edited, with an introduction, by Sarah Way Sherman University of New Hampshire Published by University Press of New England

Page iv UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND publishes books under its own imprint and is the publisher for Brandeis University Press, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College Press, University of New Hampshire, Tufts University, and Wesleyan University Press. University of New Hampshire Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 Introduction and compilation 1997 by the Trustees of the University of New Hampshire The Country of the Pointed Firs was originally published by Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, in 1896. "A Dunnet Shepherdess" and "The Queen's Twin" were originally published in The Atlantic Monthly (February and December 1899), then revised and collected in The Queen's Twin and Other Stories (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1899). The book edition is used here for both. "The Foreigner" and "William's Wedding" were originally published in The Atlantic Monthly (August 1900 and August 1910). All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jewett, Sarah Orne, 18491909. The country of the pointed firs and other stories / Sarah Orne Jewett; edited, with an introduction, by Sarah Way Sherman. Centennial ed. p. cm.(Hardscrabble books) Contents: The country of the pointed firsWilliam's wedding The queen's twinThe foreignerA Dunnet shepherdess. ISBN 0-87451-826-1 (pa : alk. paper) 1. United StatesSocial life and customs19th centuryFiction. 2. MaineSocial life and customsFiction. 3. WomenMaine Fiction. I. Sherman, Sarah Way. II. Title. III. Series. PS2132.C64 1997b 813'.4dc21 96-53845

Page v CONTENTS Introduction vii The Country of the Pointed Firs 1 A Dunnet Shepherdess 215 The Foreigner 233 The Queen's Twin 258 William's Wedding 276

Page vii INTRODUCTION TO THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS This Hardscrabble book reproduces the 1896 first edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs. Its pages are taken directly from a text purchased at a used book store in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; the flyleaf still bears the inscription, "In memory of pleasant summer days C. H. M. from H. E. R. December 23, 1896." I don't know who C. H. M. and H. E. R. were, but I imagine that they were friends and that Jewett's book was exchanged as a kind of token, a symbol of a summer they shared, much as the narrator of this book and her landlady share the pieces of early apple pie at the Bowden Reunion. Jewett's readers still give this book as a gift. I am even occasionally asked to inscribe my own, rather scholarly, book about Jewett as a present from one friend to another or, as happened several times, from a daughter or son to a mother. What makes The Country of the Pointed Firs, like the coastal village it describes, "so attaching" is hard to say. Its pleasures are so subtle and unassuming. But like a landscape one comes to admire gradually, walking it slowly and seeing it change over several seasons, or like an acquaintance who grows into an intimate friend, Jewett's book can enter into the fabric of daily life for the sympathetic reader. Its vision and the reader's can seem mysteriously to merge. Above her desk Jewett pinned this passage from Flaubert: "Ce n'est pas de faire rire, ni de faire pleurer, ni de vous mettre

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