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Sarah Orne Jewett

Born

in South Berwick, Maine, The United States

September 03, 1849

Died

June 24, 1909

Website

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/jewett.htm

Genre

Fiction, Short Stories

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Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 14,629 ratings · 2,090 reviews · 442 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, Douglas Alvord (Illustrator) 3.80 avg rating — 4,686 ratings — published 1896 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, Anita Shreve (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 2,836 ratings — published 1910 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Douglas Alvord (Illustrator) 3.66 avg rating — 2,319 ratings — published 1886 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Country Doctor 3.51 avg rating — 627 ratings — published 1884 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A White Heron and Other Stories 3.75 avg rating — 209 ratings — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deephaven 3.69 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 1877 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Novels and Stories: Deephaven / A Country Doctor / The Country of the Pointed Firs / Dunnet Landing Stories / Selected Stories and Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett, Michael Davitt Bell (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lady Ferry: A Ghost Story for Christmas 3.72 avg rating — 72 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A White Heron, and the Hiltons' Holiday 3.49 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Marsh Island 3.51 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1885 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett

tags: write

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“The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett

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“It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

tags: conversation, noise, silence

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Polls

November 2017 Old School Classic Poll

The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas 1850, 246 pages

53 votes, 18.7%

Walden by Henry David Thoreau 1854, 352 pages

52 votes, 18.4%

The Art of War by Sun Tzu -500, 273 pages

46 votes, 16.3%

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 1860, 579 pages

33 votes, 11.7%

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos 1782, 448 pages

30 votes, 10.6%

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 1833, 240 pages

24 votes, 8.5%

The Monk by Matthew Lewis 1796, 386 pages

18 votes, 6.4%

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov 1859, 586 pages

11 votes, 3.9%

The Castle of Wolfenbach: A German Story by Eliza Parsons 1793, 224 pages

9 votes, 3.2%

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett 1896, 224 pages

7 votes, 2.5%

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