The Country of the Pointed Firs Author:Sarah Orne Jewett A centennial edition of a classic New England novel. — She had always dreamed of going back to the dark woods and rocky shores of Maine. Now, a successful writer, she would return to the sight of eager spectators awaiting her on the wharf. — Yet it was not the thronging crowds that she sought, but the quiet beauty that shone in the air an... more »d sparkled on the water. And it was the quiet affection she found in the men and women whose homespun ways touched, and answered, her deepest unspoken thoughts.« less