The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. When one really knows a village like this and its surroundings, it is like becoming acquainted with a single person. I had never heard of Sarah Orne Jewett and wasnt looking forward to spending my time reading anything that strayed too far from Fantasy, Adventure, Action, and Science Fiction. Similar to Jewetts other works, The Country of the Pointed Firs delivers a slice of New England. It is easy to see the influence that Sarah Orne Jewett had on Willa Cather in this short novel that so distinctly captures the atmosphere of a special time. These houses made the most of their seaward view, and there was a gayety and determined floweriness in their bits of garden ground the small-paned high windows in the peaks of their steep gables were like knowing eyes that watched the harbor and the far sea-line beyond, or looked northward all along the shore and its background of spruces and balsam firs. I first read 'The Country of the Pointed Firs' in college as part of my American Literature class. Sarah Orne Jewett (Author) Mint Editions (Contributor). Perhaps it was the simple fact of acquaintance with that neighborhood which made it so attaching, and gave such interest to the rocky shore and dark woods, and the few houses which seemed to be securely wedged and tree-nailed in among the ledges by the Landing. THERE WAS SOMETHING about the coast town of Dunnet which made it seem more attractive than other maritime villages of eastern Maine.
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