A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
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About This Book
In her nuanced and sharply etched novels and short stories, Sarah Orne Jewett captured the innerlife and hidden emotional drama of outwardly quiet New England coastal towns. Set against the background of long Maine winters, hardscrabble farms, and the sea, her stories of independent, capable women struggling to find fulfillment in their lives and work have a surprisingly modern resonance. Here is the first collection to include all her best fiction, and it reveals the full stature of the writer Willa Cather ranked with Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Jewett struck her characteristic note ...
Chapters (78)
- A COUNTRY DOCTOR
- AND
- SELECTED STORIES AND SKETCHES
- Published 1884
- A Country Doctor
- CONTENTS
- I
- THE LAST MILE
- II
- THE FARM-HOUSE KITCHEN
- III
- AT JAKE AND MARTIN'S
- IV
- LIFE AND DEATH
- V
- A SUNDAY VISIT
- VI
- IN SUMMER WEATHER
- VII
- FOR THE YEARS TO COME
- VIII
- A GREAT CHANGE
- IX
- AT DR. LESLIE'S
- X
- ACROSS THE STREET
- XI
- NEW OUTLOOKS
- XII
- AGAINST THE WIND
- XIII
- A STRAIGHT COURSE
- XIV
- MISS PRINCE OF DUNPORT
- XV
- HOSTESS AND GUEST
- XVI
- A JUNE SUNDAY
- XVII
- XVIII
- A SERIOUS TEA-DRINKING
- XIX
- FRIEND AND LOVER
- XX
- ASHORE AND AFLOAT
- XXI
- AT HOME AGAIN
- SELECTED STORIES AND SKETCHES
- CONTENTS
- A Winter Courtship
- Going to Shrewsbury
- The White Rose Road
- The Town Poor
- A Native of Winby
- I.
- II.
- III.
- Looking Back on Girlhood
- The Passing of Sister Barsett
- Decoration Day
- I.
- II.
- III.
- The Flight of Betsey Lane
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- The Gray Mills of Farley
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
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