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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 03:55 PM
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- CurrerBell: Strout's Pulitzer. The form of this novel -- a collection of short stories all in some way incorporating the title character -- is reminiscent of Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs.
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 09:28 AM
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 08:11 PM
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- aulsmith: Country of the Pointed Firs is the American Cranford, a nice quiet novel about a small town.CurrerBell: Excellent edition to buy as a stand-alone of Pointed Firs because of its Introduction by Mary Ellen Chase
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 12:47 PM
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 09:30 AM
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- CurrerBell, sturlington
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Tilføjet 2017-01-04, 01:13 PM
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 08:14 PM
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- CurrerBell
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- CurrerBell: Very convenient single-volume of Jewett, but disappointing coming from the Library of America. Jewett deserves at least two volumes and possibly three -- comparable to the LoA edition of Willa Cather.
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Tilføjet 2014-01-15, 09:26 PM
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Tilføjet 2015-07-22, 09:48 PM
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 08:16 PM
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- CurrerBell
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- CurrerBell: The form of this novel -- a collection of short stories united around the character of a deceased elderly woman who is to be buried later that day -- is reminiscent of Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs (though Pointed Firs of course does not involve a death or a funeral of Almira Todd). This is Chase's best work and apparently was also her own personal favorite.
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Tilføjet 2019-05-28, 12:44 PM
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Tilføjet 2014-01-15, 09:27 PM
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Tilføjet 2015-07-22, 09:48 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-01-31, 09:25 PM
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Tilføjet 2015-07-22, 09:49 PM
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Tilføjet 2020-03-24, 09:28 AM
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Tilføjet 2014-01-14, 11:50 AM
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 03:56 PM
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 08:15 PM
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- CurrerBell
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- CurrerBell: Excellent anthology showing Jewett's sympathy for the immigrant and "social outsider."
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 09:31 AM
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- sturlington: Jerusalem's Lot (fictional)
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Tilføjet 2021-01-22, 11:58 AM
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 03:55 PM
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- CurrerBell
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 09:28 AM
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- sturlington: Chester's Mill (fictional)
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Tilføjet 2022-05-09, 08:36 AM
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 08:13 PM
- Member
- CurrerBell
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- CurrerBell: Chase's first major novel (though she did write some children's works earlier), and a very good portrayal of a family of Maine seafarers and farmers over the years. More condensed than Silas Crockett, so if you're like me and don't care for sprawling "family epics" you'll prefer Mary Peters over Silas Crockett (though neither is near comparable to The Edge of Darkness).
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 09:30 AM
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Tilføjet 2016-12-21, 08:39 AM
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Tilføjet 2024-04-26, 07:00 AM
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 08:13 PM
- Member
- CurrerBell
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- CurrerBell: Interesting novel but much weakened by its mid-19th century piety (as one would expect of Stowe). Extremely important as the singlemost influential work on Sarah Orne Jewett, legitimating for Jewett the use of Maine dialect. Stowe's character of Captain Kitteridge is also extremely well drawn and reminds one of the elderly sea captain that Jewett would portray in The Country of the Pointed Firs (though Jewett's captain is senile and Captain Kitteridge is anything but!).
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 08:14 PM
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 08:19 PM
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- CurrerBell
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- CurrerBell: If you like James Michner, you'll like Silas Crockett. I don't care for Michner-style "family epics" and therefore I don't especially care for this particular Chase novel. (It seems to be one of the most popular among Chase's general readership, though.)
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 08:18 PM
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- CurrerBell
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 08:12 PM
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- CurrerBell
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- CurrerBell: Not too much recommended. It's largely repetitive of Feminist Convert by Chase's younger sister-in-law Evelyn Hyman Chase -- and repetitive dangerously to the point of plagiarism.
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 08:48 PM
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- CurrerBell
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Tilføjet 2014-01-13, 08:18 PM
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- CurrerBell,aulsmith
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- aulsmith : This is a very odd anthology. All of the poets spent time in Maine, but that's all they have in common. The poems aren't all about Maine, and, in fact, many of the ones I found most interesting weren't.