{"product_id":"the-country-of-the-pointed-firs-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Orne Jewett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilla Cather\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Orne Jewett's place in American letters was assured when this acclaimed collection of stories about her native state of Maine was first published in 1896. \u003cb\u003eWith a Preface by Willa Cather.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSarah Orne Jewett's crisp style and skillful observation of people and places gives her work lasting appeal.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Orne Jewett's place in American letters was assured when this acclaimed collection of stories about her native state of Maine was first published in 1896. Her crisp style and skillful observation of people and places gives her work lasting appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Orne Jewett \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Maine on September 3, 1849, and grew up in the small town of South Berwick where she was to spend the principal part of her life. Ill health prevented her from fulfilling her ambition to become a doctor; she turned to writing instead. Her first story was published when she was 18, and her literary production continued unabated until a crippling carriage accident in 1902 ended her creative career. She died on June 24, 1909, leaving behind a remarkable literary legacy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWILLA CATHER\u003c\/b\u003e was probably born in Virginia in 1873, although her parents did not register the date, and it is probably incorrectly given on her tombstone. Because she is so famous for her Nebraska novels, many people assume she was born there, but Willa Cather was about nine years old when her family moved to a small Nebraska frontier town called Red Cloud that was populated by immigrant Swedes, Bohemians, Germans, Poles, Czechs, and Russians. The oldest of seven children, she was educated at home, studied Latin with a neighbor, and read the English classics in the evening. By the time she went to the University of Nebraska in 1891-where she began by wearing boy's clothes and cut her hair close to her head-she had decided to be a writer.After graduation she worked for a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper, then moved to Pittsburgh and finally to New York City. There she joined \u003ci\u003eMcClure's \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, a popular muckraking periodical that encouraged the writing of new young authors. After meeting the author Sarah Orne Jewett, she decided to quit journalism and devote herself full time to fiction. Her first novel\u003ci\u003e, Alexander's Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in serial form in \u003ci\u003eMcClure' s\u003c\/i\u003e in 1912. But her place in American literature was established with her first Nebraska novel, \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!, \u003c\/i\u003e published in 1913, which was followed by her most famous pioneer novel, \u003ci\u003eMy Antonia, \u003c\/i\u003e in 1918. In 1922 she won the Pulitzer Prize for one of her lesser-known books, \u003ci\u003eOne of Ours. Death Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/i\u003e (1927), her masterpiece, and \u003ci\u003eShadows on the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e (1931) also celebrated the pioneer spirit, but in the Southwest and French Canada. Her other novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Lark\u003c\/i\u003e (1915), \u003ci\u003eThe Professor' s House\u003c\/i\u003e (1925), \u003ci\u003eMy Mortal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e (1926), and \u003ci\u003eLucy Gayheart\u003c\/i\u003e (1935). 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