The Country of the Pointed Firs (Version 2)


Read by PhyllisV

(4.8 stars; 9 reviews)

The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 book by American writer Sarah Orne Jewett. It is considered by some literary critics to be her finest work. The narrator, a Bostonian, returns after a brief visit a few summers prior, to the small coastal town of Dunnet, Maine, in order to finish writing her book. Upon arriving she settles in with Almira Todd, a widow in her sixties and the local apothecary and herbalist. The narrator occasionally assists Mrs. Todd with her frequent callers, but this distracts her from her writing and she seeks a room of her own. Renting an empty schoolhouse with a broad view of Dunnet Landing, the narrator can apparently concentrate on her writing, although Jewett does not use the schoolhouse to show the narrator at work but rather in meditation and receiving company. The schoolhouse is one of many locations in the novel which Jewett elevates to mythic significance and for the narrator the location is a center of writerly consciousness from which she makes journeys out and to which others make journeys in. - Summary by Wikipedia (5 hr 52 min)

Chapters

Chaper 1 - The Return 3:10 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 2 - Mrs. Todd 13:40 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 3 - The Schoolhouse 6:39 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 4 - At the Schoolhouse Window 7:31 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 5 - Captain Littlepage 18:46 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 6 - The Waiting Place 19:24 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 7 - The Outer Island 10:07 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 8 - Green Island 30:30 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 9 - William 9:22 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 10 - Where Pennyroyal Grew 13:49 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 11 - The Old Singers 9:33 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 12 - A Strange Sail 19:59 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 13 - Poor Joanna 29:27 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 14 - The Hermitage 19:35 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 15 - On Shell-heap Island 10:38 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 16 - The Great Expedition 16:11 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 17 - A Country Road 18:20 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 18 - The Bowden Reunion 30:44 Read by PhyllisV
Chaper 19 - The Feast's End 14:31 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 20 - Along Shore 38:15 Read by PhyllisV
Chapter 21 - The Backward View 11:53 Read by PhyllisV

Reviews

Poetic


(5 stars)

A beautiful poetic story. Thanks to the great reader.


(5 stars)

excellent. loved it. thank you reader for a fine job.