{"title":"Sarah Orne Jewett","description":"Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was a novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her novels The Country of the Pointed Firs and A Country Doctor,  and renowned for her contributions to American literary regionalism. Don James McLaughlin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tulsa.","products":[{"product_id":"a-marsh-island-paperback","title":"A Marsh Island - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Marsh Island (1885) by Sarah Orne Jewett is a a gentle yet vivid tale of life in a small New England coastal community. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through rich, naturalistic detail, the novel follows the intertwined lives of islanders who live in harmony with the rhythms of nature, exploring themes of queerness, friendship, tradition, and the quiet beauty of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101145862367,"sku":"9781961884854","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/9gn8FdgDyJ9781961884854.webp?v=1781068348"},{"product_id":"a-country-doctor-paperback","title":"A Country Doctor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hundred and thirty years after it was first published, Sarah Orne Jewett's story of a young medical woman remains an incisive rendering of the dilemmas of gender, society, and self. Nan Prince first becomes interested in medicine as a child, as the ward of the widowed physician Dr. Leslie. In time she becomes his prot g e. But when she enters medical college, she realizes that she will have to choose between marriage and her career, between the demands of her society and her obligations to her true self. Inspired by Jewett's own interests and by her father, \u003ci\u003eA Country Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e portrays a world very much in flux and Nan, ultimately, as a woman with a new world opening to her. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough 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. \u003cbr\u003ePublished in 1884, Jewett's first novel, A Country Doctor, is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical look at her world. In it, Nan's struggle to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the confining life of a small town and a self-directed one as a professional, mirrors Jewett's own conflicts as well as eloquently giving voice to the leading women's issues of her time. Perhaps even more importantly, Jewett's perfect details about wild flowers and seaside wharfs, farm women knitting by the fireside and sailors going upriver to meet the moonlight convey a realism that has seldom been surpassed and stamp her writing with her signature style.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101640364255,"sku":"9780143039266","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/NRuV9iZK0L9780143039266.webp?v=1781071877"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/sarah-orne-jewett.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}