A rich collection of classic American literature potraying the beauty of a 19th-century New England town.A female writer comes one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, where she follows the lonely inhabitants of...

The masterpiece that established Sarah Orne Jewett among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fictionComposed in a series of beautiful web-like sketches, the novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city...

Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett's first novel, A Country Doctor, is a...

"A White Heron" ist eine Kurzgeschichte von Sarah Orne Jewett, die sich auf das Thema Natur und Menschheit konzentriert. Die Geschichte handelt von einer jungen Mädchen namens Sylvia, die in den ländlichen Wäldern Neuenglands lebt. Eines...