Name: Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett - FULL AUDIOBOOK
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Description: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett's finest work, described by Henry James as her 'beautiful little quantum of achievement.' Despite James's diminutives, the novel remains a c

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The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett's finest work, described by Henry James as her 'beautiful little quantum of achievement.' Despite James's diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because it is loosely structured, many critics view the book not as a novel, but as a series of sketches; however, its structure is unified through both setting and theme. Jewett herself felt that her strengths as a writer lay not in plot development or dramatic tension, but in character development. Indeed, she determined early in her career to preserve a disappearing way of life, and her novel can be read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship on the inhabitants who lived in the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast.

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - The Return / Mrs. Todd
00:11:22 - 02 - The Schoolhouse
00:16:57 - 03 - At the Schoolhouse Window
00:23:41 - 04 - Captain Littlepage
00:38:02 - 05 - The Waiting Place
00:52:00 - 06 - The Outer Island
00:58:58 - 07 - Green Island
01:20:57 - 08 - William
01:27:56 - 09 - Where Pennyroyal Grew
01:38:48 - 10 - The Old Singers
01:46:52 - 11 - A Strange Sail
02:00:38 - 12 - Poor Joanna
02:20:56 - 13 - The Hermitage
02:35:12 - 14 - On Shell-heap Island
02:43:11 - 15 - The Great Expedition
02:55:50 - 16 - A Country Road
03:09:34 - 17 - The Bowden Reunion
03:36:05 - 18 - The Feast's End
03:47:58 - 19 - Along Shore
04:16:33 - 20 - The Backward View